Definition of hospital

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Hospital (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 treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for..

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Adoption :: Adoption (n.) Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another..
Hospitableness :: Hospitableness (n.) The quality of being hospitable; hospitality.
Dotation :: Dotation (n.) Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation..
Receipt :: Receipt (n.) Reception, as an act of hospitality..
Pesthouse :: Pesthouse (n.) A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.
Hospitalize :: Hospitalize (v. t.) To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital..
Externe :: Externe (n.) An officer in attendance upon a hospital, but not residing in it; esp., one who cares for the out-patients..
Spitalhouse :: Spital (n.) A hospital.
Hospitate :: Hospitate (v. t.) To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.
Pathologist :: Pathologist (n.) One skilled in pathology; an investigator in pathology; as, the pathologist of a hospital, whose duty it is to determine the causes of the diseases..
Ward :: Ward (n.) A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward..
Christmas :: Christmas (n.) An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality..
Out-patient :: Out-patient (n.) A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it..
Hearth :: Hearth (n.) The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside..
Housekeeping :: Housekeeping (n.) Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions.
Orthopedical :: Orthopedical (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, orthopedy; relating to the prevention or cure of deformities of children, or, in general, of the human body at any age; as, orthopedic surgery; an orthopedic hospital..
Hospitalities :: Hospitalities (pl. ) of Hospitalit.
Water Bed :: Water bed () A kind of mattress made of, or covered with, waterproof fabric and filled with water. It is used in hospitals for bedridden patients..
Hospitate :: Hospitate (v. i.) To receive hospitality; to be a guest.
Inhospitable :: Inhospitable (a.) Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people..
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