PERSONAL CARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does personal care mean? 

• PERSONAL CARE (noun)
  The noun PERSONAL CARE has 1 sense:

1. care for someone who is disabled or is otherwise unable to care for themselves; can including bathing and cooking and managing bodily functions

  Familiarity information: PERSONAL CARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERSONAL CARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Care for someone who is disabled or is otherwise unable to care for themselves; can including bathing and cooking and managing bodily functions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("personal care" is a kind of...):

aid; attention; care; tending (the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something)

 Context examples 

A class of professional or vocational positions of employment that involve personal care or service.

(Personal Care and Service Occupations, NCI Thesaurus)

This instrument contains 6 areas which include memory, orientation, judgment and problem solving, community affairs, home and hobbies, and personal care.

(Clinical Dementia Rating Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

A study led by Dr Jianhua Guo from UQ's Advanced Water Management Centre focused on triclosan, a compound used in more than 2000 personal care products.

(Toothpaste and Hand Wash Are Causing Antibiotic Resistance, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

N-Nitrosodiethanolamine is ubiquitously found in the environment and is a contaminant formed by the reaction of nitrites with ethanolamines in a wide range of products including tobacco, pesticides, antifreeze and personal care products.

(N-Nitrosodi-n-butylamine, NCI Thesaurus)

Other specific baby products were also analysed, such as personal care products, certain fabrics, nappy-changing mats, and mattress protectors.

(Babies in neonatal intensive care units are exposed to harmful chemical substances found in plastic, University of Granada)

This discovery provides strong evidence that the triclosan found in personal care products that we use daily is accelerating the spread of antibiotic resistance.

(Toothpaste and Hand Wash Are Causing Antibiotic Resistance, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A multidisciplinary team of scientists from Granada has warned for the first time of the presence of bisphenol A (BPA) and parabens (PBs) in a wide range of plastic medical devices, fabrics, personal care products (including topical creams), and nutritional supplements in hospital neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), coming into direct contact with new-born babies.

(Babies in neonatal intensive care units are exposed to harmful chemical substances found in plastic, University of Granada)