Goddess+of+health

  • 31Doctors' symbol — A staff or rod, with a snake curled around it. It is the staff or rod of Aesculapius (also called Asklepios), the ancient mythical god of medicine. His Greek name was Asklepios and his Roman name Aesculapius. In reality, Asklepios may have been a …

    Medical dictionary

  • 32Medical symbol — A staff or rod with a snake curled around it is the staff (the rod) of Aesculapius (also called Asklepios), the ancient mythical god of medicine. His Greek name was Asklepios and his Roman name was Aesculapius. In reality, Asklepios may have once …

    Medical dictionary

  • 33Snake stick — A stick or rod with a snake curled around it is the staff (the rod) of Aesculapius (also called Asklepios), the ancient mythical god of medicine. His Greek name was Asklepios and his Roman name Aesculapius. In reality, Asklepios may have once… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 34Staff of Aesculapius — A rod or stick with the snake curled around it is the staff (the rod) of Aesculapius (also called Asklepios), the ancient god of medicine. His Greek name was Asklepios and his Roman name Aesculapius. In reality, Asklepios may have been a real… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 35Hygeia — Hy*ge ia, n. [L. Hygea, Hygia, fr. Gr. ?, ?, health, ?, Hygeia, fr. ? sound, healthy.] (Classic Myth.) The goddess of health, daughter of Esculapius. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 36Hygeian — Hy*ge ian, a. Relating to Hygeia, the goddess of health; of or pertaining to health, or its preservation. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 37Emma, Lady Hamilton — Infobox Person name = Emma, Lady Hamilton imagesize = caption = by George Romney, 1782 birth date = 1761 birth place = Neston, Cheshire, England death date = 15 January 1815 death place = Calais, France death cause = Liver failure occupation =… …

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  • 38Lusitanian mythology — is the mythology of the Lusitanians, the Indo European people of western Iberia, in the territory comprising most of modern Portugal south of the Douro river.Lusitanian deities heavily influenced all of the religious practices in western Iberia,… …

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  • 39Emma Hamilton — Emma, Lady Hamilton Emma Hamilton, pintada por George Romney, h. 1785 …

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  • 40hygiene — [19] Greek hugiés meant ‘healthy’. From it were formed the noun hugíeia ‘health’ (personified as Hygieia, the Greek goddess of health) and the adjective hugieinós ‘healthful’. This came to be used as a noun, hugieiné, ‘science of healthy living’ …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins