Crossword clues for sanatorium
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sanatorium \San`a*to"ri*um\, n. [NL. See Sanatory.] An establishment for the treatment of the sick; a resort for invalids. See Sanitarium.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1839, Modern Latin, noun use of neuter of Late Latin adjective sanitorius "health-giving," from Latin sanat-, past participle stem of sanare "to heal," from sanus "well, healthy, sane" (see sane). Latin sanare is the source of Italian sanare, Spanish sanar.
Wiktionary
n. an institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
WordNet
n. a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases [syn: sanatarium, sanitarium]
pejorative terms for an insane asylum [syn: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, snake pit]
Wikipedia
A sanatorium (also spelled sanitorium and sanitarium) is a medical facility for long-term illness, most typically associated with treatment of tuberculosis (TB) before antibiotics. A distinction is sometimes made between "sanitarium" (a kind of health resort, as in the Battle Creek Sanitarium) and "sanatorium" (a hospital).
Sanatorium is a thrash metal band from Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. It consists of Pero Stefanovski ( guitar and vocals), Konstantin Kačev (guitar), Goran Stanković ( bass guitar) and Goran Atanasov ( drums).
In Russia, Ukraine, and other former Soviet Union republics, the term sanatorium is generally used for a combination resort/recreational facility and a medical facility to provide short-term complex rest and medical services. It is similar to spa resorts with medical services.
On the other hand, for most Eastern Europeans including Russians, Ukrainians, Czechs, and other national cultures sanatorium mostly means a kind of hotel with health resort facilities and various available services (such as massage, pools, saunas, aromatherapy, oxygenotherapy, etc.) not covered by medical insurance. It is mostly without any double connotation is a spa resort where relatively healthy business people can rest and recuperate well-being during a regular job vacation. For example, Sanatorium Astória and others located in Karlovy Vary Czech Republic, or Geneva Sanatorium Hotel in Ukraine may serve the purpose. Usually in this case a doctor's prescription is not required. However, a general practitioner is available and recommended for guests to check their health status in the beginning and at the end of their staying in a hotel.
In How the Universe got its Spots, (pp. 63-70), physicist Janna Levin describes a scientific meeting in a sanatorium near Moscow at the end of 1999. She discusses mathematics and general relativity but mentions no medical care.
A sanatorium is a medical facility for long-term illness, often associated with treatment of tuberculosis before antibiotics.
The term may also refer to:
- One of a number of facilities for tuberculosis treatment in Colorado Springs, Colorado
- National Methodist Sanatorium, a 1926 medical facility in Colorado Springs that was later used as the headquarters for NORAD
- Sanatorium (band), a thrash metal band of the Republic of Macedonia
- Sanatorium (resort), a facility with spa and medical services, as known in Russia, Ukraine, and other former Soviet Union republics
Usage examples of "sanatorium".
Up the slope was the sanatorium, very much constructed of bright metal and of polarizable windows, the whole of the design taking a sharply pitched snow-shedding silhouette.
The whole sanatorium was, and probably had been for a long time, in the pay of Quintell or Grendonor, possibly, one of the other Immortals.
In the early, fast-deepening winter dusk, 2213 Avers Court looked like any small private hospital or sanatorium.
My sanatorium diet had not prepared me for such gourmandising as this and I ate steadily while Maxil talked.
Several times she ended up in the hospital with pneumonia, and once she was put into a sanatorium for two months, during which my sister and I were sent to a Catholic orphanage, a grim prisonlike institution set in wintry fields of corn stubble that seemed infinitely bleak to city kids.
They briefly considered the merit of intercutting old UNAC footage with whatever commentary he devised, and scrubbed that in favour of a nice, uncluttered series of grab shots of the sanatorium and any lab interiors they might be able to pick up.
Indeed, when patients in these sanatoria related to their keepers that they were being visited in the midnight hours by vampires, you can imagine how the revelation was received.
There was a coterie of wardersa gloved private gatekeeper in a blue uniform with the sanatorium crest, plus a sturdy middle-aged plainclothesman in a sensible vested suit and a greatcoat and a velour hat, and a bright young fellow in a sportcoat and topper whom Michaelmas recognized as a minor UNAC press staff man.
The Assistant Commissioner at the other end said: "We ought to be able to get that information for you--by circularising the various private sanatoriums.
The affair had begun in the wake of the Duchess's kidney operation, which had coincided with the equally ailing Jim Phillips's removal to the sanatorium at Battle Creek, Michigan.
At that time he was spending the remains of the money left him by his aunt, and Elizabeth had hardly settled down at Brookport and got her venture under way when she found herself obliged to provide for Nutty a combination of home and sanatorium.
It was through the southern end of this that the traffic was now attempting to pass: a jumble of stodgy towers and lowflung contemporary hutments which stretched along the dual carriageway almost as far as the amiable sanatorium settlement of Bad Godesberg, whose principal industry, having once been bottled water, is now diplomacy.
A quarter of the northern plateau was given over to their plant, another quarter contained a sanatorium and reserve for hardy tourists, and the other half was a game reserve and ecological study area.
Tell me—what purpose does a sanatorium or a home for incurables serve?
Your father wasn't suffering from tuberculosis and the Sanatorium in question was a mental home.