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sanatorium
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Word definitions for sanatorium in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. an institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
WordNet
Word definitions in 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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 .
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.