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hospice
[ hos-pis ]
noun
- a house of shelter or rest for pilgrims, strangers, etc., especially one kept by a religious order.
- Medicine/Medical.
- a healthcare facility for the terminally ill that emphasizes pain control and emotional support for the patient and family, typically refraining from taking extraordinary measures to prolong life.
- a similar program of care and support for the terminally ill at home or in a nursing home.
hospice
/ ˈhɒspɪs /
noun
- a nursing home that specializes in caring for the terminally ill
- archaic.Also calledhospitiumhɒˈspɪtɪəm hospitiahɒˈspɪtɪə a place of shelter for travellers, esp one kept by a monastic order
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Origin of hospice1
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Example Sentences
A nurse at Saline Memorial Hospice, she was leaving work when her ex-boyfriend fatally shot her before turning the gun on himself.
The next evening, Romero was saying mass in the chapel at the hospice where he lived in a tiny room near the infirm and the dying.
Kate and William also visited the Bear Mountain Hospice for children, where she met and chatted with patients and their parents.
Thomas J. Foley died Friday in hospice care in Washington at age 84.
He has also demonstrated compassion for AIDS victims, washing and kissing the feet of 12 patients in a hospice in 2001.
The monks now hire their own house from the Government, which has let out their hospice for an hotel.
More than eight thousand feet up in the mountains, the Hospice must have been snowbound long since.
The once-bright dream of becoming a maronnier, or lay worker, at the Hospice of St. Bernard had faded with the passing of time.
Bernard determined to build a hospice, a shelter for all who needed it, at the very summit of the Pass.
It was not that mules were unable to reach the Hospice—sometimes they did—but, at best, it was a highly uncertain undertaking.
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