health

health
   illness
   As with defence and life2, the taboo subject is avoided by talking about the converse. Thus the pharmaceutical industry sells health care products to the sick; the British National Health Service provides, as best it can, for the ill and dying; and we refer to such things as health clinics or farms, health insurance, etc.

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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