Look up: Hospital

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   Hospital
   A hospital is an institution for caring for the sick and injured. The name derives from House of God's Hospitality, and were founded by the church in obedience to the injunction to care for the sick. Not until the late Victorian era would doctors attend to sexually transmitted diseases, believing them to be punishments from God. A view still held by many religious people today, although now more commonly applied to 'AIDS' than other STDs.
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   Hospital
   Any institution duly licensed, certified, and operated as a Hospital. In no event shall the term 'Hospital' include a convalescent facility, nursing home, or any institution or part thereof which is used principally as a convalescence facility, rest facility, nursing facility, or facility for the aged.
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   hospital
   [n] - a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care 2. [n] - a health facility where patients receive treatment
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   Hospital
   A place designed for cared for the sick. The earliest in the northeast were purpose-built hospitals in the Roman period placed in the military forts, such as those along Hadrian's Wall. These were organised around a central courtyard with the separate wards leading off from it. Monasteries took over the role of caring for the sick in the Medieval ...
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   Hospital
   Hospital: It may seem unnecessary to define a 'hospital' since everyone knows the nature of a hospital. A hospital began as a charitable institution for the needy, aged, infirm, or young. The word 'hospital' comes from the Latin 'hospes' which refers to either a visitor or the host who receives the visitor. From 'hospes' came the Latin 'hospitalia' ...
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   Hospital
   Hos'pi·tal noun [ Old French hospital , ospital , French hôpital , Late Latin hospitale (or perhaps English hospital is directly from the Late Latin), from Latin hospitalis relating to a guest, hospitalia apartments for guests, from hospes guest. See Host a landlord, and confer Hostel , Hotel , Spital .] 1. ...
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   Hospital
   Hos'pi·tal adjective [ Latin hospitalis : confer Old French hospital .] Hospitable. [ Obsolete] Howell.
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   hospital
   1. A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn. ... 2. A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or mor ...
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   hospital
   infirmary noun a health facility where patients receive treatment
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    hospital
    noun a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care
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    Hospital
    A `hospital` is an institution for health care, often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays. Today, hospitals are usually funded by the state, health organizations (for profit or non-profit), health insurances or charities, including direct charitable donations. In history, however, they were often founded and funded by religious orders or charitable individuals and leaders. Hospitals are nowadays staffed by professional physicia...
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    hospital
    (hos´pĭ-tәl) an institution for the care and treatment of the acutely sick and injured. day hospital a facility that offers professional health care, such as psychiatric care or rehabilitation services, to individuals who require services but are able to return to thei...
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    Hospital
    • (n.) A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn. • (a.) Hospitable. • (n.) A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are trea...
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    Hospital
    (from the article `Wiseman, Frederick`) ...proceeded to make documentaries on varoius American institutions, including a public high school (High School, 1968), a metropolitan police force ...
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    hospital
    an institution that is built, staffed, and equipped for the diagnosis of disease; for the treatment, both medical and surgical, of the sick and the ... [12 related articles]
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    hospital
    An institution for the treatment, care, and cure of the sick and wounded, for the study of disease, and for the training of physicians, nurses, and allied health personnel. [L. hospitalis, for a guest, fr. hospes (hospit-), a host, a guest]
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    hospital
    
    1. a health facility where patients receive treatment
    2. a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care
    
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    Hospital
    An institution whose primary function is to provide diagnostic and therapeutic inpatient services, for a variety of surgical and non-surgical medical conditions. In addition, most hospitals provide outpatient services, including emergency care.
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    Hospital
    A medical facility that is capable of handling a wide variety of situations, including childbirth, emergency care, surgery and other diagnostic procedures. A hospital provides care to patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by a wide variety of health care professionals. The hospital is divided into several wings, or wards, based on the required c...
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    hospital
    hospital, institution for the care of the sick, maintained by private endowment or public funds or both. General hospitals minister to all types of illness, while special hospitals are concerned with only one disease or group of diseases. Many hospitals are maintained solely for the treatment of mil...
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