From Greek 'hugiḗs' (healthy), named after goddess Hygieia — whose Bowl of Hygieia remains the international symbol of pharmacy.
Conditions or practices conducive to maintaining health and preventing disease, especially through cleanliness.
From French 'hygiène,' from Greek 'hugieínē (tékhnē)' (ὑγιεινή τέχνη, the healthful art), from 'hugieinós' (ὑγιεινός, healthful, wholesome), from 'hugiḗs' (ὑγιής, healthy, sound). The word is ultimately derived from Hygieia (Ὑγίεια), the Greek goddess of health, daughter of Asklepios the healer-god. Hygieia represented not the cure of disease but its prevention through clean living — a distinction the Greeks considered fundamental. Her sister
Hygiene is named after Hygieia, the Greek goddess of health, who was always depicted with a serpent drinking from a bowl in her hand. This image — the Bowl of Hygieia — is still the international symbol of pharmacy, displayed on pharmacies worldwide. Her father Asklepios's staff, with a single serpent coiled around it, became the symbol of medicine. The two serpents of the caduceus (often