Pesthouse: A hospital where people suffering from infectious disease were once confined and sometimes treated. 'I discovered the ruin of the pesthouse, a building where anyone with an illness who was passing through the western passages into the British Isles in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries would be quarantined and left to die.' (Jim Cra... Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=25542
pesthouse 1. A house, or hospital, for people who are infected with any pestilential disease (tending to produce a pestilence or a disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease). 2. Formerly a hospital where people suffering from infectious diseases were once confined and sometimes treated. The term pest was on... Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1615/