Meaning of INFIRMARY
| Pronunciation: | | in'furmuree
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| | Definition: | | [n] a health facility where patients receive treatment |
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| | Synonyms: | | hospital |
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| | See Also: | | asylum, burn center, clinic, creche, foundling hospital, health facility, hospital room, hospital ward, insane asylum, institution, lazar house, lazaret, lazarette, lazaretto, medical building, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, military hospital, pesthouse, psychiatric hospital, sanatarium, sanatorium, sanitarium, ward | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*firm"a*ry\ ([i^]n*f[~e]rm"[.a]*r[y^]), n.; pl.
{Infirmaries} (-r[i^]z). [Cf. OE. fermerie, OF. enfermerie,
F. infirmerie, LL. infirmaria. See {Infirm}.]
A hospital, or place where the infirm or sick are lodged and
nursed gratuitously, or where out-patients are treated.
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| | Related Terms: | | asylum, base hospital, clinic, community hospital, convalescent home, convalescent hospital, dispensary, evacuation hospital, field hospital, general hospital, home, hospital, inpatient clinic, maison de sante, mental hospital, nursing home, osteopathic hospital, outpatient clinic, policlinic, polyclinic, private hospital, proprietary hospital, public hospital, rest home, sanatorium, sick bay, sickbed, sickroom, special hospital, station hospital, surgery, surgical hospital, teaching hospital, VA hospital, veterans hospital, voluntary hospital, ward, well-baby clinic |
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