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[hos-pi-tl]

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noun

an institution in which sick or injured persons are given medical or surgical treatment.

a similar establishment for the care of animals.

a repair shop for specific portable objects: violin hospital; doll hospital.

British. an institution supported by charity or taxes for the care of the needy, as an orphanage or old people's home.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English hospitale < Medieval Latin, noun use of neuter of Latin hospitālis hospitable, equivalent to hospit- (see hospitium) + -ālis -al¹

Related forms

min·i·hos·pi·tal, noun

mul·ti·hos·pi·tal, adjective

post·hos·pi·tal, adjective

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Hospital is always a great word to know.

So is ort. Does it mean:

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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Some simple steps to help elderly patients avoid hospital delirium.

The officers dropped him off at a local hospital but did not secure medical attention for him there.

It is also cheaper to house the mentally ill behind bars than in a state hospital.

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Some simple steps to help elderly patients avoid hospital delirium.

The officers dropped him off at a local hospital but did not secure medical attention for him there.

It is also cheaper to house the mentally ill behind bars than in a state hospital.

Suffering from a concussion, a motorcyclist insisted on being married before going to the hospital.

Hospital health care staff increased their hand washing in response to signs reminding them that it helped.

He spent the night following the game in a hospital.

In the end, my dad was fine and never had to go to the hospital.

Biometric identification technology, already being pilot tested in banks and law enforcement agencies, checks into the hospital.

Hazard, who founded the hospital in a frame building on the same site in.

Leary apparently left the hospital and committed suicide.

He interrupted a hospital visit by the prime minister and his deputy that.

And they were in a brand-new white hospital that turned into a blood bath.

Rather, they should save the antibacterials for critical situations, such as when a patient returns from the hospital.

Most dirt poor farmers with cancer in those days ended up in the poor ward in a state or city hospital.

The entire hospital must be using the same practices and adhering to the same guidelines.

Their hospital began to shrink about nine weeks agoFirst, the hospice didn't reopen after renovations.

Mortality rates vary considerably from hospital to hospital.

They took her to a village clinic and to a rural hospital.

Denial is common at the hospital because patients are often afraid they will receive lesser care for self-inflicted.

Much of what happens to you in the hospital in the name of diagnosing and healing is invasive.

Schoenstein mobilized his staff to scour the metropolitan area for the then-rare medicine and deliver it to the hospital.

One robot controlled by the kid from his hospital bed.

Hospital-acquired pneumonia is an infection of the lungs that occurs during a hospital stay.

Nathan is, women must walk miles through mountains to get to the closest hospital.

The obvious likely culprit was re-use of unsterilised needles, a practice that other workers at the same hospital say was routine.

After spending the night in a hospital room, someone walked me over to another building a couple of blocks away.

To ask the hospital to play the role of prosecutor and judge simultaneously is not a reasonable expectation.

Protesters split into groups, stationed near prominent downtown locales: the cemetery, lighthouse and hospital.

Even the best patients spend a week in the hospital and require two months or three months to recuperate.

The young patient decorated her hospital room, went for walks with her boyfriend and insisted on sleeping late.

My ex's mother had one, but she was terminally ill and in the hospital long-term, which is not the case for me.

My concern is that this therapy would be used prophylacticly in hospital situations to reduce hospital liability.

Ruoppolo had nearly finished building a makeshift field hospital.

No one knows how much time elapsed between the injury and when he was brought to a hospital.

Delirium is an underappreciated danger for elderly hospital patients, experts say.

Generally, when someone is in critical condition or deceased, it is the hospital or police who notifies next of kin.

She's rushed to a manatee hospital and placed in a hot private pool to get her body temperature back up to normal.

When the earthquake struck some days later, the hospital buildings collapsed around her.

Our graduates counsel hospital patients on end-of-life.

At any moment, half of the world's hospital beds are filled with people suffering from water-related diseases.

Often the response to the bill from a hospital can be more traumatic than the visit itself.

The low point came when a woman arrived at his hospital with cardiac failure.

His family couldn't afford the operation and he died in the hospital of an infection.

The other half will get a routine treatment of transfusion with saline solution until they reach the hospital.

The woman's injuries were described as critical, and she was undergoing surgery at a hospital later in the day.

The aquarium even has a turtle hospital to treat injured sea turtles.

Evidence includes patients recognizing hospital staff they had never met but who helped during their resuscitation.

Women are less likely to get infections when they give birth at home rather than in a hospital.

She realized that her left arm had been bitten by a shark and she was rushed to the hospital.

He is a one man envoy on the ground for the hospital helping as many people as he.

Hamed captures a quiet, tender moment between a wife and her husband before he heads off to work at a local hospital.

He is a one man envoy on the ground for the hospital helping as many people as he can.

She was so excited to finally be out of the hospital and away from all.

If possible, think back to a time you or a loved one had to be in a hospital for a significant amount of time.

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World English Dictionary

hospital (ˈhɒspɪt^əl)

—n
1.	an institution for the medical, surgical, obstetric, or psychiatric care and treatment of patients
2.	(modifier) having the function of a hospital: a hospital ship
3.	a repair shop for something specified: a dolls' hospital
4.	archaic a charitable home, hospice, or school

[C13: from Medieval Latin hospitāle hospice, from Latin hospitālis relating to a guest, from hospes, hospit- guest, host¹]

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Word Origin & History

hospital

1242, "shelter for the needy," from O.Fr. hospital "hostel," from L.L. hospitale "guest-house, inn," neut. of L. adj. hospitalis "of a guest or host," from hospes (gen. hospitis); see host (1). Later "charitable institution to house and maintain the needy" (1418); sense of

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"institution for sick people" is first recorded 1549. Hospitalize is from 1901, "Freq(uently) commented on as an unhappy formation" [OED].

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Medical Dictionary

hospital hos·pi·tal (hŏs'pĭ-tl, -pĭt'l)
n.
An institution that provides medical, surgical, or psychiatric care and treatment for the sick or the injured.

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"I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better."

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