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nightingale the lady with the lamp

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Night⋅in⋅gale

[nahyt-n-geyl, nahy-ting-]
–noun
Florence (“the Lady with the Lamp”), 1820–1910, English nurse: reformer of hospital conditions and procedures; reorganizer of nurse's training programs.
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Nightingale Night·in·gale (nīt'n-gāl', nī'tĭng-), Florence. 1820-1910.

British nurse who organized (1854) and directed a unit of field nurses during the Crimean War and is considered the founder of modern nursing.

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