| 释义 |
sanatorium|sænəˈtɔərɪəm|
Pl. sanatoria, sanatoriums. Also erron. sanatarium.
[a. mod.L. sānātōrium, f. sānāre to cure, heal: see sanate v. and -ory.
Cf. G. sanatorium. The erroneous form sanatarium is due to confusion with sanitarium.]
1. An establishment for the reception and medical treatment of invalids; in recent use chiefly either of convalescent patients, or of consumptives undergoing the open-air treatment. Also fig.
1839London Med. Gaz. XXV. 406/2 Dr. Southwood Smith, Dr. Arnott, and some other gentlemen, have it in contemplation to establish, under the name of ‘Sanatorium’, an institution..where patients are provided with board and medical treatment on the payment of a certain sum per week. Ibid. 407/2 We anticipate..that the parties who have set about the Sanatorium will abandon the scheme before it has been brought into actual operation. 1840Mech. Mag. 152 [A prospectus of ‘The Sanatorium’—a self-supporting establishment for the lodging, nursing and cure of sick persons]. 1899Westm. Gaz. 21 Aug. 6/1 Quite a little shoal of companies for the establishment of sanatoria has recently made its appearance. The latest company is the Harrogate Sanatorium for Consumptives. 1934Dylan Thomas Let. 15 Apr. (1966) 104, I don't want to see my books; a library is a sanatorium of sick minds. 1973Sci. Amer. Sept. 130/2 The care of the mentally ill in distant upland sanatoriums.
2. A place to which, on account of favourable climatic and other conditions, invalids resort for the improvement of their health; spec. a hill-station in a hot country, esp. in India, to which residents periodically resort to recuperate.
1842G. T. Vigne Trav. Kashmir I. 38 These ladies are known by the well-selected epithet of ‘Grass Widows’; and there are sometimes more than fifty of them at each sanatorium. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 248 On a ridge of the outer Himalaya, stands the cantonment, or depôt, of Landour. It was established in 1827, as a sanatarium for European troops. 1859Tennent Ceylon (ed. 2) II. 263 Neuera-ellia, as a sanatarium, is little to be relied on for the relief of active ailments. 1865Pall Mall G. 29 Sept. 11/1 An English physician, who, as the custom is, has taken one of the rising sanatoria on the shores of the Mediterranean under his especial patronage. 1880Athenæum 24 Apr. 533/2 There was a time when Minnesota was regarded as a sanatorium for the victims of consumption.
3. A room or building in a boarding school for the accommodation of the sick. Cf. San4.
1860Eton Gloss. 30 Sanatorium. The Hospital—a modern improvement—where a boy seized with any infectious and dangerous illness is at once sent. 1901Eton Boy's Lett. 98 They dont take measels to the Sanatorium as they arent dangerous. 1914‘I. Hay’ Lighter Side School Life iii. 71 When dragged from the scrummage he was in a half-fainting condition. He revived as he was being carried to the Sanatorium. 1981E. North Dames iv. 75 Should Sister move the general's daughter to the sanatorium?.. Polio was about at Eton..where many girls had brothers. |