health check

Questions about health check

What does health check mean?

health check means "a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person".

What is another word for health check?

Close synonyms include checkup, medical checkup, medical examination, medical exam, medical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is health check a common word?

health check is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.