Medical examinations where a doctor inspects your health to make sure everything is working properly.
From 'check' (to inspect) plus 'up'. The medical term became standard in American English in the early 1900s with modern preventive medicine.
Regular checkups are one of the greatest public health innovations—countries that made preventive checkups standard actually reduced deaths more than places that only treated sick people.
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