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A hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases
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sanitarium
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sanitarium may refer to: An alternative spelling of sanatorium , which may refer to a medical facility for long-term illness, or a health-oriented resort, depending on region Sanitarium, California , in Napa County Battle Creek Sanitarium , made famous ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Finally he committed himself to a sanitarium , and after several months was sent home with a male companion. ▪ He arrived on the train, freshly divorced, just out of a sanitarium after a bout with alcohol. ▪ When the time came, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1829, literally "place dedicated to health," from neuter of Modern Latin *sanitarius , from Latin sanitas "health," from sanus "healthy; sane" (see sane ). Compare sanatarium .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context US English) (alternative spelling of sanatorium English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sanitarium \San`i*ta"ri*um\, n. [NL. See Sanitary .] A health station or retreat; a sanatorium. ``A sanitarium for troops.'' --L. Oliphant.
Usage examples of sanitarium.
Remo wondered briefly what exactly Folcroft Sanitarium was and what kind of nit would waste his time stamping and restamping a cheap, stained, easily replaceable coffee mug.
The group consisted of Gordon Waycroft and his erstwhile guests: Kirk Brenshaw and three other men whose relatives were inmates of Beaverwood Sanitarium.
What I mean to say is, Doctor, please tell me in all sincerity, as one human being to another, what is your opinion of chemical versus sanitarium therapy?
If all my churches could be turned into sanitariums for earthbound spirits what great good could be done!
That was before people had discovered the Adirondacks as a sanitarium for consumptives.
Sanitarium, a doctor unearthed the fingerprints, at the same time explaining that they were the second parties who had been interested in them.
She struck me as the sort of woman who, a hundred years ago, might have spent long years in a sanitarium with a series of misdiagnoses stemming from anxiety, un-happiness, laudanum addiction, or an aversion to sex.
He sent Bibbs to "begin at the bottom and learn from the ground up" in the machine-shop of the Sheridan Automatic Pump Works, and at the end of six months the family physician sent Bibbs to begin at the bottom and learn from the ground up in a sanitarium.
Beginning at the beginning and learning from the ground up was a long course for Bibbs at the sanitarium, with milk and "zwieback" as the basis of instruction.
On the contrary, tonight he would shut down the sanitarium, and along with everything else, he would stand accused of failure, of bollixing a job, of screwing up the works.
And I know that there are nine other men in that sanitarium, drugged by Trenor, with the same scuff as Monsorlit used on Harlan.
The doctor or psychiatrist from the sanitarium near Beloit, the one who took an interest in your case after—after what happened to you at Brampton.
This is Father Freise calling from Angel of Mercy Sanitarium in Auburn, New Hampshire.
The local Gulf station filled the tank in the Corvette, and the pimply-faced cashier provided vague directions to the Angel of Mercy Sanitarium.
A surprising percentage of them ended up in tuberculosis sanitariums, and some of the survivors graduated to the stone walls at Dannemora or Sing Sing.