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Home providing care for the sick
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hospice
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hospice \Hos"pice\, n. [F., fr. L. hospitium hospitality, a place where strangers are entertained, fr. hospes stranger, guest. See Host a landlord.] A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hospice care is a type of care and philosophy of care that focuses on the palliation of a chronically ill , terminally ill or seriously ill patient's pain and symptoms, and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs. In Western society, the concept ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN care ▪ Palliative care and hospice care became two of the first casualties. ▪ Patients are eligible for hospice care when doctors expect them to live six months or less. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Mary, who was suffering ...
Usage examples of hospice.
Exile anchoress turns out to be just as much of a fraud as the ministering nun in the hospice for the dying.
Research was the foundation upon which the Hands of Grace program rested, the armor that would protect it from the brickbats hurled by those who would see in its simple ministry of the heart a threat to their administrative power, the key that would unlock the doors of scientific materialism and allow contemplative musicians unimpeded entry into hospital and hospice alike.
Bulbul could be persuaded that if the hospice were harrassed, its patron would refuse to deal with Fire Lotus, and Bulbul would lose his bribe for securing her seed for the parthogen bottles.
Ein and Faralin Ferd, lieutenants of Embruddock, together with Raynil Layan, master of the mint, and Dathka, Lord of the Western Veldt, had formed a Fever Committee, on which they themselves sat, together with useful citizens such as Ma Scantiom of the hospice.
Still, my own fault for stopping for him in the first place, so I bang on the meter and go for a u-turn at the hospice, which is no easy thing on that poxy road with constant traffic coming at you from every direction.
But further inquiries along the road north had revealed that a Columban brother and two bearded and black-clad pilgrims with swords strapped under their saddles had passed that way at the appropriate time, and had turned west after leaving the hospice at Dunkeld.
As is the fashion in some parts of the city, most of these buildings had shops in their lower levels, though they had not been built for the shops but as guildhalls, basilicas, arenas, conservatories, treasuries, oratories, artellos, asylums, manufacturies, conventicles, hospices, lazarets, mills, refectories, deadhouses, abattoirs, and playhouses.
The servingmen had settled their baggage in the spacious room to which the men of the party were escortedthe women resided in a separate wingand now, as the sun set and lamps were lit, Marcus, Wolfhere, and Zacharias seated themselves on pillows while youths from the hospice brought around a basin of water in which they washed their hands before eating.
We were taken in by a hospice honoring the great god Zake and tended by the chirurgeons dedicated to his holy name.
She entrusted me to the care of other Pilgrims who passed the hospice.
You may remember, when you and I first met, at that hospice d'aliénés in Vienna, I told you I was visiting the clinique there.
Domnhall is gone, yes, and we have our new law, have the hospices officially under our jurisdiction, but the Church tarries.
It's no coincidence he chose this moment to give the hospices to the Guilde.
It’s no coincidence he chose this moment to give the hospices to the Guilde.
Then he looked up and, with a frown, said, “The hospices have nothing to do with it.