bill_of_health has definitions from the field of writing
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[ noun ] (writing) a certificate saying that a departing ship's company is healthy (to be presented at the next port of arrival)

Used in print

(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

For Mrs._Shaefer - who had been given a clean bill_of_health by her own physician at the time she visited Lee - and her friend were agents for the California_Pure_Food and Drug_Inspection_Bureau .

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certificate

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