hospital
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hospital/ˈhɒspɪtl/
▶noun
- 1 an institution providing medical and surgical treatment and nursing care for sick or injured people.
- 2 historical a hospice, especially one run by the Knights Hospitaller.
– derivatives
hospitalization (or hospitalisation) noun,
hospitalize (or hospitalise) verb.
hospitalization (or hospitalisation) noun,
hospitalize (or hospitalise) verb.
– origin ME: via OFr. from med. L. hospitale, neut. of L. hospitalis ‘hospitable’, from hospes, hospit- (see host1).
'hospital' also found in these Oxford entries:
admit
- aftercare
- ambulance
- auxiliary
- base hospital
- bed
- bed-blocking
- bedlam
- bughouse
- candy-striper
- casualty
- casualty department
- catchment area
- charge nurse
- Chelsea pensioner
- clinic
- commit
- committal
- consultant
- cottage hospital
- cross-infection
- day surgery
- deinstitutionalize
- discharge
- emergency
- ENT
- extern
- field hospital
- firm
- fundholding
- funny farm
- gown
- gurney
- high-dependency
- hospital corners
- hospital fever
- hospitalism
- hospitality
- hospitaller
- hospital ship
- hospital trust
- hostel
- house
- house officer
- infirmary
- inmate
- inpatient
- intern
- lazaretto
