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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

Hygea

Hygia

, fr. Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK], health, [GREEK], Hygeia, fr. [GREEK] sound, healthy.]

(Classic Myth.)

The goddess of health, daughter of Esculapius.

Hygeia f

Obsolete spelling of Higeia (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).