healthyhealth‧y /ˈhelθi/ ●●● S3 W3 adjective (comparative healthier, superlative healthiest) 
a healthy baby boy I’ve always been perfectly healthy until now.2good for your body good for your body: a healthy lifestyle a healthy diet the importance of healthy eating3showing good health showing that you are healthy: Her face had a healthy glow. All of our kids have healthy appetites (=they like to eat a lot).4behaviour/attitude used to describe an attitude, feeling, or behaviour that is natural, normal, and sensible: I don’t think it’s healthy for her to spend so much time alone.healthy respect/disrespect/scepticism etc a healthy disrespect for silly regulations5company/relationship etc a healthy company, society, relationship, economy etc is working effectively and successfully: a healthy economy with a well-trained workforce6amount large and showing that someone is successful – used about amounts of money: a healthy profit a healthy bank balance—healthily adverb—healthiness noun [uncountable]THESAURUShealthy having good health: · A good diet keeps you healthy.· They tested the drug on healthy volunteers.well used especially when describing or asking about how someone feels or looks: · I don’t feel well.· How was James – did he look well?fine spoken used in a reply to a question about your health, or when talking about someone else’s health. Use fine only in replies or statements, not in questions: · ‘Hi, Tom, how are you?’ ‘Fine, thanks.’· She had a bad cold, but she’s fine now.all right/OK spoken not ill or injured. These expressions are very commonly used in everyday spoken English: · You look pale – are you feeling all right?· He’s had an accident but he’s OK.better less ill than you were, or no longer ill: · I’m feeling a lot better now.· Don’t come back to school until you’re better.fit healthy, especially because you exercise regularly: · She keeps fit by cycling everywhere.· Police officers have to be physically fit and have good eyesight.in (good) shape healthy and fit: · Jogging keeps me in pretty good shape.robust literary healthy and strong, and not likely to become ill: · He had a robust constitution (=a strong and healthy body).· robust plants· a robust girl, wearing a thick woollen sweaterbe/look a picture of health to look very healthy: · She looked a picture of health as she posed for the cameras.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- healthy skin
- a healthy diet
- a healthy marriage
- a healthy outdoor life
- All of our kids have healthy appetites.
- Currently, there's a healthy climate for businesses.
- Eating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables will help you to stay healthy.
- He's nearly 60 now but he's strong and healthy and full of energy.
- Her death came as a terrible shock. She had always been so healthy.
- Her face had a healthy glow.
- I'm trying to eat a healthier diet now, with less fat and sugar.
- I've been much healthier since I stopped smoking.
- I saw Hazel Phillips the other day, and she didn't look very healthy.
- It's not healthy for Donna to depend on Wayne so much.
- She's just had a lovely healthy baby girl.
- Taking plenty of exercise can be both healthy and enjoyable.
- We need to work toward a healthier environment.
- But there was always a healthy audience for metal.
- Educated women had lower fertility rates, and the children they did have were significantly healthier.
- In some places they even say that small amounts of radiation make you healthier.
- It is now established as a healthy food, with popular appeal for the ever-growing numbers of health-conscious diners.
- Over time, children who are not autonomous do not develop a healthy sense of self-esteem.
- She looked perfectly healthy, but Frankie was not convinced.
THESAURUS
having good health: · A good diet keeps you healthy.· They tested the drug on healthy volunteers.
used especially when describing or asking about how someone feels or looks: · I don’t feel well.· How was James – did he look well?
spoken used in a reply to a question about your health, or when talking about someone else’s health. Use fine only in replies or statements, not in questions: · ‘Hi, Tom, how are you?’ ‘Fine, thanks.’· She had a bad cold, but she’s fine now.
spoken not ill or injured. These expressions are very commonly used in everyday spoken English: · You look pale – are you feeling all right?· He’s had an accident but he’s OK.
less ill than you were, or no longer ill: · I’m feeling a lot better now.· Don’t come back to school until you’re better.
healthy, especially because you exercise regularly: · She keeps fit by cycling everywhere.· Police officers have to be physically fit and have good eyesight.
healthy and fit: · Jogging keeps me in pretty good shape.
literary healthy and strong, and not likely to become ill: · He had a robust constitution (=a strong and healthy body).· robust plants· a robust girl, wearing a thick woollen sweater
to look very healthy: · She looked a picture of health as she posed for the cameras.
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who is healthy someone who is healthy has nothing physically wrong with them: · I've been much healthier since I stopped smoking.· She's just had a lovely healthy baby girl.
healthy - use this to say that someone feels or looks healthy, or that they are healthy again after an illness: · "How are you?'' "I'm very well, thank you.''· Clare's been much better since the operation.look well: · You're looking well - have you been on holiday?fit and well: · You need to eat regular nourishing meals if you want to keep yourself fit and well.
spoken say this when someone has asked you how you or someone else feels, and you are replying that you or the other person feels well: · "How are you?'' "Fine, thanks."· "How's your wife now?'' "Oh, she's fine, thank you.''
formal very healthy: · The hostages arrived back in Britain yesterday, tired but otherwise in good health.· My grandmother remained in excellent health until she was in her nineties.
someone who is usually healthy · He's nearly 60 now but he's strong and healthy and full of energy.· Her death came as a terrible shock. She had always been so healthy.stay/keep healthy · Eating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables will help you to stay healthy.
someone who is strong has a healthy body that can do a lot of physical exercise, and becomes well quickly after any illnesses: · My father's over eighty now, and not very strong.· Only people who are physically strong and fit should consider coming on this expedition.
to not become ill easily and easily get well again after an illness or injury: · Your husband has an excellent constitution and is likely to recover in no time.· Her injuries were horrifying. Only her determination and robust constitution pulled her through.
written someone who is robust is very healthy, strong, and active, and almost never ill: · He was a robust little boy, with curly dark hair.· Paul travelled north to visit his parents, who he found less robust than before.
someone who looks healthy looking very healthy: · Two healthy-looking suntanned kids were playing in the driveway.· Even the most healthy-looking person could be carrying HIV.
use this to say that someone looks extremely healthy: · The baby lay in her father's arms, a picture of health and contentment.look the picture of health: · In spite of all her complaints, Jilly looked the picture of health.
how healthy or unhealthy you are · Linda's one of those people who always seem to be worrying about their health.health problems · Pollution in the atmosphere causes serious health problems for many people.mental/physical health · Too much stress is likely to affect both your mental and physical health.be in good/poor health (=be healthy or unhealthy) · There's no reason why you shouldn't continue working until you're 70 or over, if you're in good health.
the state of being healthy · For most animals, a shiny coat is a sign of health.· Your health is more important than any amount of money.
the condition of being healthy, happy, and having no problems: the wellbeing of somebody/somebody's wellbeing: · A warm home is essential to the wellbeing of elderly people.physical/mental/emotional etc wellbeing: · Samuel Roberts was a large man in his fifties who exuded physical wellbeing and self confidence.a feeling/sense of wellbeing: · It's a relaxing treatment that should leave you calm with a sense of wellbeing.
American when someone is usually healthy and does things to take care of their health, such as exercising and eating good foods: · In Denmark, regular health visiting promotes wellness by developing healthier children.· The institute trains people to manage wellness programs for industries, schools, communities and hospitals.
something that makes or keeps you healthy · Taking plenty of exercise can be both healthy and enjoyable.· I'm trying to eat a healthier diet now, with less fat and sugar.· a healthy outdoor life
if something is good for you or is good for your health , it makes you more healthy or stops you getting ill: · Citrus fruits such as oranges and lemons are very good for you.· I can't see how gazing at a crystal is in any way good for your health.· I love junkfood but I know it's not good for me.
if something does you good , it makes you feel better physically or emotionally, especially when you have not been feeling well: · I thought that a vacation would do me good.· Let's ask Jean to come tonight.. It might do her good to meet some new people.do somebody the world of good (=make you feel a lot better): · What you need is a good night out - it'd do you the world of good!
food that is wholesome helps you stay healthy because it has nothing unhealthy added to it and is usually prepared very simply: · 'Rosie's Pantry' is a small restaurant that serves good wholesome food.· Quality controllers ensure that all our products are safe, wholesome, and of good quality.
food that is nutritious is full of natural substances that your body needs to stay healthy or to grow properly: · Brown bread is more nutritious than white.· I eat a lot of beans, lentils and vegetables, which are nutritious but cheap.· Milk is a very nutritious food, containing protein, vitamins and minerals.
food that is nourishing helps your body to grow or to stay healthy and also gives you energy: · A simple chicken soup is both nourishing and delicious.· Preparing good nourishing family meals was a challenge with eight mouths to feed.· The Centre is open throughout the year, to ensure that homeless people can get at least one hot, nourishing meal a day.
American food or activities that are healthful help keep your body healthy: · The American breakfast is getting more healthful, with whole-grain breads and high-fiber cereals.· Our research group found that consumers want healthful food based on vegetables not meat products.
formal something that is beneficial makes you more healthy or helps you to stay healthy: · The occasional glass of wine is both enjoyable and beneficial.beneficial to: · This treatment can be very beneficial, especially to young children.
someone who is not healthy not usually healthy, so that you easily become ill: · James was a thin, pale, unhealthy child.· People who are very overweight tend to be more unhealthy than others.· At the age of 30 I was fat, unhealthy, and smoked two packs of cigarettes a day.
something that is bad for your health to make you less healthy or make you ill: · Children always seem to love food that's bad for them - ice-cream, sugar, burgers.· Everyone knows that smoking is bad for your health.
likely to make you ill or less healthy: · He has such an unhealthy lifestyle -- smoking, drinking, eating too much.· An unhealthy diet is one that is too high in fat and sugar and too low in fibre.· My mother thought it was unhealthy to sleep with the windows shut at night.
likely to have a bad effect on your health: · The new air pollution controls are designed to limit harmful emissions from industry and motor vehicles.· You should always use sunscreen to protect your skin from the harmful effects of the sun.harmful to: · As yet there is no proof that genetically modified foods are harmful to humans.
very harmful to your health, and usually having a permanent effect: · Avoid too much exposure to damaging ultraviolet light.damaging to: · X-rays can be extremely damaging to living cells.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a healthy diet the importance of healthy eating Her face had a healthy glow. All of our kids have healthy appetites (=they like to eat a lot). a healthy disrespect for silly regulationsCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Damien has always had a healthy disrespect (=that you think is good) for media opinion. She had a healthy glow in her cheeks. She lives a very busy life.
a healthy diet the importance of healthy eating Her face had a healthy glow. All of our kids have healthy appetites (=they like to eat a lot). a healthy disrespect for silly regulations· Low-fat biscuits are a healthy alternative to cake.
· Growing children should have a healthy appetite.
· You should eat a good balance of carbohydrates and protein.· Are you eating a healthy balance of foods?
(=healthy and clean)· a young man with a fresh complexion
· A healthy diet includes plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.
Damien has always had a healthy disrespect (=that you think is good) for media opinion. (=someone who eats healthy food)· Do you think healthy eaters live longer?
· The new government inherited a strong economy.
· We try to give the kids good healthy food.
She had a healthy glow in her cheeks.· Eating oily fish can help maintain a healthy heart.
· Amy gave birth to a healthy infant.
· A healthy lifestyle includes taking exercise and not smoking.
· We had very different lifestyles.
(=live in a particular way)· You can change your eating habits and lead a healthier lifestyle.
· I had enough money to live a lavish lifestyle.
She lives a very busy life.· Healthy meals can still be quick and easy to prepare.
(=big)· By the second year, the restaurant began to make a healthy profit.
(=smooth and without any red spots)· Vitamin E helps keep your skin healthy.
(=a good state)· Student numbers at the college are in a healthy state.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· As at home, your diet is as healthy and balanced as you make it - it's up to you.· If you lose weight, will you be as healthy as a person who was never fat to begin with?· Cuckney regards such managerial mobility as healthy.· They may not be as healthy as the makers would like you to think.· Norweb is paying a higher interim dividend, up from 5.3p to 5.9p and the final should be just as healthy.· He should be encouraged to think of sport as healthy exercise done for fun, rather than for competition.· A girl as healthy as it was possible to imagine and yet there, undoubtedly, was the expression of hunger.· The other two, nearly five years later, are as healthy as ever.
· Policy implications Current evidence indicates that older people are more healthy than popular stereotypes suggest.· We got one who is younger and more healthy.· Would you like to be more healthy?· Not only that, but 76% are actually doing something about it and gradually introducing more healthy foods into their diets.· More and more healthy women who have prepared carefully for childbirth will be told that they have to undergo a Caesarean.· Perhaps they were simply more healthy or more fertile.· Change the family's diet to low-fat and more healthy eating. 2.· She vowed to use more healthy images.
· Why should popular opinion hold that brown bread or brown sugar are so much healthier than the refined, white versions?· Whether you're shopping, going to work or travelling for pleasure, it's a lot cheaper and much healthier!· That's partly because the company is much healthier and more robust now.· It's all looking much healthier now but time is still a major factor.· These industries are now having to compete in the private sector and are much healthier for it.
· Periodically there are press reports of otherwise healthy individuals who need no sleep at all.· The nonsmoking, sedentary men involved in the study were 20 percent to 60 percent over ideal weight, but otherwise healthy.· Wang's face and lips were scarred from his burn wounds, but he appeared otherwise healthy.· At that rate, 3 million of those otherwise healthy people will develop heart disease in the next 10 years.· As the fish is still feeding, and appears to be otherwise healthy, I would suggest leaving it alone.· It has caused few, if any, deaths among otherwise healthy people.· The result looked like an insidious, grey-green growth lopped off an otherwise healthy young tree to protect its trunk.· The swarming lampreys consume not only dead or sickly fish but set upon otherwise healthy ones.
· She looked perfectly healthy, but Frankie was not convinced.· He denied that perfectly healthy horses make it to slaughter because he can make more by reselling to somebody else.· Given just one type of seed, they would always eat it and be perfectly healthy.· But necrotizing fasciitis can strike perfectly healthy, fastidious people as well.· However, one of them disappeared overnight, after being perfectly healthy during the day.· Yes, but this is not the explanation in many cases, where the animal is perfectly healthy in all other respects.· This does not necessarily mean sick animals - many are perfectly healthy, just unwanted.· A kidney, thought to be perfectly healthy was transplanted into a patient on chronic dialysis.
· The chicks need round the clock attention, and have developed very healthy appetites.· He was termed a very healthy individual.· With a little knowledge you can make very healthy changes to your diet without having to alter radically your whole way of eating.· His breathing was always audible; for all his size and apparent strength, he did not seem to be very healthy.· On examination there was little abnormal to see, the cervix looked very healthy and there was no excess of vaginal discharge.· Parslina is very healthy, she has no germs.· Arguably, the Club has set the standards for other to follow - and very healthy it looks on them too.· I too am very healthy, as they can see.
NOUN· The chicks need round the clock attention, and have developed very healthy appetites.· A high-powered grill that has a healthy appetite for the biggest brunch.
· You and Charles are going to have a beautiful, healthy baby.· Her arms and face have the appealing plumpness of a healthy baby.· The woman later gave birth to a healthy baby in a subsequent pregnancy.· We are just so happy to have four healthy babies.· It keeps you fit and helps you to have a healthy baby.· Marge Owen had delivered a healthy baby girl.
· Integral to this research was an understanding of how the healthy body provided its own defences against invading bacteria by developing anti-toxins.· That gave him reason to turn his personal devotion to a healthy body into a crusade.· Salt Sodium chloride is found naturally in many foods and is essential for a healthy body.· If you just eat less, you are less likely to get all the nutrition you need to build a healthy body.· I inherited a large fortune, a strong healthy body and an excellent mind.· Healthy minds in healthy bodies, yes.
· Childhood cancers, including leukaemia, can strike a healthy child at random, regardless of race, social background or creed.· From the very beginning I was an extraordinarily healthy child.· I think anything that helps to deliver a healthy child is to be welcomed, not feared.· A: It may take good detective skills to determine the cause of sudden severe ear pain in a healthy child.· She had her first operation when she was 21 days old and has never experienced the life of a healthy child.· All these infants did become healthy children with intact self-identity.· Children who suffer from prolonged ill-health inevitably benefit less from education than healthy children.· Educated women have healthier children and enjoy better health themselves.
· The healthy control group received no additional treatment.· Fundic argyrophil cell densities in patients with Zollinger-Ellison sydrome were compared with previously published values in 10 healthy control subjects.· The values were compared with findings in 10 healthy controls.· Patients with idiopathic chronic constipation have a decreased number and duration of giant migrating complexes than healthy controls.
· Of these, the most important to a healthy diet are starches and fibre.· Are supplements really a con or can they be an essential addition to a healthy diet? of dosage for supplements.· Feed on a healthy diet of positive, encouraging, hopeful thoughts.· So could better information about a healthy diet.· We had vitamin tablets-we even had doctors telling us that eating a healthy diet made more sense than gulping pills.· It's only natural to worry about whether your child is getting a healthy diet.· I told Willett I eat a healthy diet.
· After the annual over-indulgence your New Year resolutions will probably include healthy eating.· Adjust cooking methods for healthier eating.· It includes everything you need to know about healthy eating, sport and exercise, along with tips on looking good and relaxation.· Healthy eating is in, and there is plenty of advice available about what is healthy eating.· Simplesse - the way forward for healthy eating?· Rather than concentrate on restrictions it is much easier, at least initially, to consider the positive aspect of healthy eating.· You need to have detailed information to help you plan your goals for healthier eating and weight control.· Healthy growth: The award-winning Yorkshire Heartbeat scheme to promote healthy eating in pubs across Yorkshire is to be extended.
· But long-term investors do not guarantee a healthy economy.· Analysts also blamed diminished turnout on the relatively healthy economy.· Further, as a result of a generally healthy economy, employment in service and other industries outside manufacturing firms could increase.· The healthy economy continues to give companies both money and incentive to advertise.· A healthy economy in the 1960s and 1970s created a sizeable and conservative urban middle class.· Like a good cake, a healthy economy should have some springiness, some resiliency.
· The issues involved in a healthy environment grow year by year.· But we can combat germs and bacteria and provide a healthier environment for our loved ones with the help of Dettol.· My greatest aspiration is to work towards a clean healthy environment for all humanity.· The effective teaching of history requires first and foremost a healthy environment in which to flourish.· By protecting them we ensure a healthy environment - for ourselves and our children as well as for the wildlife.· In modern societies living in a healthy environment, the difference is slight.· They shout, sing and hold their placards high, demanding the right to a clean, safe, healthy environment.· Through their own efforts they have created a happier, healthier environment for their children.
· The diet is a wholesome one; healthy foods such as salads, wholemeal bread and semi-skimmed milk are used.· She advocates the idea of creating gardens that feed themselves, an organic process she believes produces healthier food and flowers.· I have the sense to choose nutritious, healthy food, and I am lasting pretty well.· They both loved to cook, and especially loved to cook what they considered healthy food.· It is now established as a healthy food, with popular appeal for the ever-growing numbers of health-conscious diners.· Check your diet against healthy food recommendations and adjust where necessary.· Information Shops should provide greater information on healthy foods at the point of sale.· It should be scrapped and replaced by a sustainable system of healthy food production.
· The healthy individual has no compulsive morality because he has no impulses which call for moral inhibition.· He was termed a very healthy individual.· Measurements of disease-incidence; the welfare of diseased individuals is clearly not as good as that of healthy individuals.· In most healthy individuals body temperature begins to rise during the last few hours of sleep just before they awaken.· When stocking a pool with fish, take care to select healthy individuals with firm, meaty bodies and erect dorsal fins.· The heart association also suggested that healthy individuals limit eggs to four or fewer a week.· More undigested food molecules pass through the gut wall than in healthy individuals, making food intolerance much more likely.· But most types of children can be emotionally healthy individuals and can become wonderful parents.
· Compulsory retirement for all at a fixed age is no longer appropriate as people live longer and healthier lives.· We will teach you that they can be very necessary components in an emotionally healthy life.· On this theory one year of healthy life is taken to be worth 1.· Today, people are living longer and healthier lives.· For Britain, babies born last year can expect 71.7 years of healthy life.· The discovery of insulin in 1921 would have lifted that sentence and offered him a long and reasonably healthy life.· They've been given a better education, a longer and healthier life and higher expectations, but no future.· The situation improved, but regular food rations were still barely sufficient to sustain a healthy life.
· Expert groups in many Western countries have already decided to lobby for changes towards a healthier lifestyle without waiting for results.· A balanced diet and daily physical exercise are the keys to a healthy lifestyle.· We recognize, too, that a healthy lifestyle contributes more to looking good than skilfully used cosmetics.· The borough council has drawn up the programme in a bid to highlight the benefits of a healthy lifestyle.· Programme LUNCH/ZMU/2/11/93 Well it's time for an unscheduled visit to one of our healthy lifestyle volunteers.· Media coverage of issues relating to a healthy lifestyle is certainly extensive, but can be confusing.· He hopes to influence thousands of children and young people to adopt healthy lifestyles.· We also explain how you can revolutionise your eating habits and lead a healthier lifestyle.
· The healthy person was also the healthy man.· A healthy man to put himself into a sickbed of his own accord.· In healthy men without atrophy, gastric acid secretion is preserved with ageing and is independent of H pylori status.· They were the healthiest men Fong had ever laid eyes on.· Sir Henry was a young and healthy man.· Similarly, basal serum gastrin concentrations do not alter with ageing in healthy men.· This effect of symmetry was indistinguishable from that observed in the speeded responses of two age-matched, neurologically healthy men.· Five normal healthy men were selected as controls for the study.
· In this way normal healthy people may be tested without inducing any damage in their brain.· I watched all the healthy people walk up and down with their limbs intact and the flesh still covering their bones.· In addition, tonics from plants can be used preventively by healthy people, as our grandparents may attest.· That concentration, greater than on a highway during rush hour, would not cause even a headache in most healthy people.· But do we need it, will it make our lives better, will we be healthier people as a result.· The bug, called enterococcus, lives in the nasal passages and intestines of many healthy people, causing no harm.· But that same enzyme system is defective in 20 percent of normal, healthy people.· It is a picture, says Kevorkian, of how most normal, healthy people view dying.
· The healthy person was also the healthy man.· I am a thin, healthy person.· Being a healthy person, I immediately told myself this could not refer to me.· They also can attack a healthy person who might become infected through a foot wound, for example.· Any healthy person will think like this.· Hahnemann discovered that certain remedies caused particular symptoms in a healthy person.· In the normal, healthy person the gut flora is a balanced community of different organisms.· It states that a substance causing certain symptoms in a healthy person can cure a sick person with the same symptoms.
· And hospital chiefs are confident the shops will turn in healthy profits that will be used to improve patient care.· At a time when many chains are losing money, Lechters is turning a healthy profit.· Burmah Castrol, the lubricants group, was one impressive performer as dealers cheered its healthy profits rise.· Companies continue to register healthy profits.· Bought four years ago from Johnson Matthey, it has since trebled turnover and is now making healthy profits.· So does that add up to conflict for the pubs; healthy drinking verses healthy profit?· Both, along with Red Dragon in Cardiff, which he also picked up, were now showing a healthy profit.· The couple had taken over the shop six years previously and had achieved a healthy profit through hard work.
· I wouldn't insult their intelligence by lying and we had a healthy respect for each other.· My fear turned into a healthy respect for the sea.· Having said all this, the court accepted the need to pay healthy respect to the principles of comity.· Acclaimed designer Carleton Varney has introduced bright new colors and a sense of airy spaciousness while retaining a healthy respect for tradition.· In the main they are shy creatures, though their speed, strength and agility demand a healthy respect.· A different set of values existed, such as parental respect, and a healthy respect for law and order.
· Jejunal secretion is, however, known to occasionally occur in healthy subjects.· Even in healthy subjects the eyeball exhibits rapid, involuntary, oscillatory movements, a phenomenon called nystagmus.· Peristaltic garments could almost double blood flow in healthy subjects.· Thirty five healthy subjects with different blood groups were also included in the study.· A nasopharyngeal swab or paired serum samples, or both, were collected from healthy subjects.· ET-1 mRNA and mature peptide have been localised to the pulmonary epithelium of healthy subjects and those with asthma.· The concentration of other essential cationic metals in gastric juice did not differ between healthy subjects and those with peptic ulcer disease.· The control group consisted of 30 healthy subjects.
· In healthy volunteers, H pylori state was determined by the C urea breath test.· The H pylori negative and positive healthy volunteers were similar for both basal and peak acid output.· Such a lack of correlation was also observed by Levin after oral administration of 5 µg purified cholera toxin to healthy volunteers.· The study was approved by the ethics committee of our university and informed consent was obtained from all patients and healthy volunteers.· Grossly normal appearing gastric biopsy specimens were taken from healthy volunteers.· The patients with gastric ulcer had significantly fewer gap junctions than did the healthy volunteers.· Twenty healthy volunteers completed the questionnaire.· Small gap junctions were observed between gastric surface mucous cells in all healthy volunteers.
· To me, she represents a healthy woman who eats sensibly and exercises.· But doctors have not yet formulated their own message for the healthy women who carry these mutated genes.· But even young, nulliparous, and otherwise totally healthy women experience urinary incontinence.· Nine separate studies throughout the world have not shown any improvement in outcome for the baby with monitoring of healthy women.· More and more healthy women who have prepared carefully for childbirth will be told that they have to undergo a Caesarean.· We would soon discover that we had no answers to the most obvious questions about how healthy women function.· A 19-year-old previously healthy woman was admitted with generalised tonic-clonic seizure, followed by focal myoclonus of the right shoulder.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- A good start is one where you pass close behind the start boat going at speed.
- But it wasn't a good start in the lessons of love, and left me very arid in such matters.
- He had better start by accepting that if he does the right things, they will not be popular ones.
- It wasn't a very good start.
- Not a good start, but a start, nevertheless.
- The auditor may enjoy the gifts, but he had better start looking for a sympathy engram not yet suspected or tapped.
- The problem was the middle and end, when the team sacrificed rebounding for getting out to a good start.
- They will, however, be getting a new center, and that is a good start, he believes.
WORD FAMILYnounhealthhealthinessadjectivehealthy ≠ unhealthyadverbhealthily ≠ unhealthily
1person/animal/plant physically strong and not likely to become ill or weak: a healthy baby boy I’ve always been perfectly healthy until now.2good for your body good for your body: a healthy lifestyle a healthy diet the importance of healthy eating3showing good health showing that you are healthy: Her face had a healthy glow. All of our kids have healthy appetites (=they like to eat a lot).4behaviour/attitude used to describe an attitude, feeling, or behaviour that is natural, normal, and sensible: I don’t think it’s healthy for her to spend so much time alone.healthy respect/disrespect/scepticism etc a healthy disrespect for silly regulations5company/relationship etc a healthy company, society, relationship, economy etc is working effectively and successfully: a healthy economy with a well-trained workforce6amount large and showing that someone is successful – used about amounts of money: a healthy profit a healthy bank balance—healthily adverb—healthiness noun [uncountable]THESAURUShealthy having good health: · A good diet keeps you healthy.· They tested the drug on healthy volunteers.well used especially when describing or asking about how someone feels or looks: · I don’t feel well.· How was James – did he look well?fine spoken used in a reply to a question about your health, or when talking about someone else’s health. Use fine only in replies or statements, not in questions: · ‘Hi, Tom, how are you?’ ‘Fine, thanks.’· She had a bad cold, but she’s fine now.all right/OK spoken not ill or injured. These expressions are very commonly used in everyday spoken English: · You look pale – are you feeling all right?· He’s had an accident but he’s OK.better less ill than you were, or no longer ill: · I’m feeling a lot better now.· Don’t come back to school until you’re better.fit healthy, especially because you exercise regularly: · She keeps fit by cycling everywhere.· Police officers have to be physically fit and have good eyesight.in (good) shape healthy and fit: · Jogging keeps me in pretty good shape.robust literary healthy and strong, and not likely to become ill: · He had a robust constitution (=a strong and healthy body).· robust plants· a robust girl, wearing a thick woollen sweaterbe/look a picture of health to look very healthy: · She looked a picture of health as she posed for the cameras.