detriment means an injury or damage  this word I found in the open lab article by Christopher Mele  as I was reading the article I came across this word in my reading  I wasn’t confused about the word detriment but I wanted to know what the word meant in the reading so that I would not confused this word to mean something  else so now when I look the word up and I can use the word detriment in a sentence I now will not be confused by the word and what it means. detriment means I was able to travel with put detriment to my baby’s health