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hospital
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[ noun ] (medicine) a health facility where patients receive treatment
Synonyms Used in print (LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)There may be a number of secondary effects resulting from diffusion through buildings such_as widespread contamination of kitchens , restaurants , food stores , hospitals , etc. . (J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)Severe back pain in June , 1959 , prompted a third hospital admission . The terminal hospital admission on June 27 , 1959 , was necessitated by continued weakness and debility complicated by urinary retention and painful thrombosed hemorrhoids . (Christopher Davis, First Family....)He was discharged from the hospital after a two day checkup and he and his parents had what Mr._McKinley described as a `` celebration lunch '' at the cafeteria on the campus . (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)Standing in the shelter of the tent - a rejected hospital tent on which the rain now dripped , no_longer drumming - Adam watched his own hands touch the objects on the improvised counter of boards laid across two beef barrels . |
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[ noun ] (medicine) a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care
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