checkup

noun

check·​up ˈchek-ˌəp 

plural checkups

: a general examination of someone's or something's condition

… Take your car or minivan to the garage for a thorough checkup.

—Travel Holiday

especially : a periodic medical or dental examination

Family history for breast, prostate and colon cancer is one of the first things any competent doctor asks you about at a checkup.

—Peter Huber

After each checkup, the dentist asks, "Have you been flossing?" The big lie: "Of course."

—Jin Lee

Synonyms

• audit
• check
• examination
• going-over
• inspection
• look-see
• review
• scan
• scrutiny
• survey
• view

Examples of checkup in a Sentence

She goes for a checkup every year.

The doctor gave me a checkup.

She brought in her car for a 30,000-mile checkup.

Recent Examples on the Web

The checkup process will start as soon as the tool has loaded, having already analyzed the necessary settings in the background while doing so. —Davey Winder, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024

Get regular checkups to monitor blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar levels. —Alexandria Nyembwe, Phd, Rn, Health, 4 Nov. 2024

At a 20-week checkup in March, a doctor had told the couple that the baby had multicystic kidney disease, meaning its vital organs were not forming. —Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2024

The traditional annual checkup is being disrupted in various tech-heavy ways, from telehealth to concierge medicine to the CarePod, above, a DIY health clinic-in-a-box. —Tina Reed, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

checkup

noun

check·​up ˈchek-ˌəp 

: examination sense 1

a dental checkup

especially : a general physical examination

Medical Definition

checkup

noun

check·​up ˈchek-ˌəp 

: examination

especially : a general physical examination