hospital
(hɒspɪtəl )
Word forms: hospitals
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A hospital is a place where people who are ill are looked after by nurses and doctors.
...a children's hospital with 120 beds.
A couple of weeks later my mother went into hospital.
He may be able to leave hospital early next week.
Synonyms: infirmary, clinic, nursing home, hospice
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Collocations:
acute hospital animal hospital build a hospital cancer hospital emergency hospital failing hospital hospital medicine hospital orderly hospital outpatient hospital parking hospital pharmacy hospital physician hospital room hospital setting hospital staff hospital stay hospital treats hospital unit hospital visit hospital worker leave hospital local hospital makeshift hospital military hospital nearby hospital paediatric hospital prison hospital private hospital recover in hospital referral hospital regional hospital rehabilitation hospital rural hospital specialist hospital struggling hospitals sue the hospital tertiary hospital veterinary hospital
I dread the day I am admitted as a medical emergency to a busy acute hospital.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Local hospitals would carry out the bulk of routine operations, with major acute hospitals dealing with complex surgery or patients who need treatment for serious injury.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Far too often in a busy acute hospital nobody has any time for those they cannot save.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
She was rushed to an animal hospital in Malta where the pellets were taken from her skull.
The Sun (2011)
A Cheshire animal hospital helped it to recover.
The Sun (2012)
The dog was taken to an animal hospital.
The Sun (2011)
Building this hospital should improve conditions for at least some in Ivory Coast.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
An Italian construction group has signed a preliminary agreement to build five hospitals.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Equally, it would be prudent to revise the pledge to build more hospitals.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
He was determined to build a $25 million cancer hospital for the poor people of Lahore.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The Manchester City fan dressed up to raise cash for a cancer hospital.
The Sun (2008)
I'm in a cancer hospital.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The woman finally received emergency hospital treatment in Liverpool.
The Sun (2009)
The emergency hospitals are no longer dealing with trauma.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Consultants work in teams with each typically working one week in eight at the emergency hospital.
The Sun (2015)
The failing hospitals need new management and to merge some services.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The nation cannot afford to keep subsidising failing hospitals.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Yet it was introduced only after a strong leadership team took over a failing hospital.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Thankfully, general practice and hospital medicine are very different disciplines.
Times, Sunday Times
Part of me will be sorry to leave but it's tough staying in hospital medicine.
Times, Sunday Times
Then in she swept and in a generation revolutionised not just nursing but the practice of hospital medicine.
Times,Sunday Times
In so doing they exist in an uncomfortable limbo between the friendly pragmatism of primary care and the cold, cutting edge of hospital medicine.
Times, Sunday Times
These constituencies include academic hospitalists, clinicians-internists, family physicians, pediatricians, hospital medicine group leaders, researchers, clinical educators, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, hospital administrators, and pharmacists.
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A hospital orderly stands in front of the doors, arms folded.
Times, Sunday Times
He spent his with an emergency mountain rescue service but there are lots of other options, including hospital orderly and care home assistant, to name but two.
Times, Sunday Times
After leaving the game, he worked in a warehouse, as a hospital orderly and as a gym trainer.
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It was also possible they could be asked to do similar civilian work, such as being a hospital orderly.
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In addition to writing, he worked at various times as a hospital orderly, computer consultant, slush pile reader, and copy editor.
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Patients are taught how to treat themselves without calling on the services of their GP, hospital outpatient or accident and emergency department.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
A hospital outpatient appointment would then be required only if specialist management is needed.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
My hospital outpatient slots are 15 minutes long and average GP slots are ten minutes.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Patients reported issues such as poor access to interpreters, call bells put out of the reach of patients, and hospital parking charges.
Times, Sunday Times
He'll want to talk about fracking, hospital parking charges, the weather and how his marrows are doing.
Times, Sunday Times
One project involved looking at the number of cars in hospital parking lots during flu season to predict when outbreaks were beginning.
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Our old car needs repairing and, what with the hospital parking fees, we don't know which way to turn.
The Sun
Look at prescriptions and hospital parking.
The Sun
Until the second month: when, back at the hospital pharmacy, he was quoted 3,480.
Times, Sunday Times
Worryingly, only someone with authority could have obtained them from a secure hospital pharmacy.
The Sun
Salaries in hospital pharmacy range from about 18,500 in the pre-registration year, to 22,000 after qualification and up to about 60,000 as a consultant.
Times, Sunday Times
With government control firmly established, soldiers broke into the hospital pharmacy and commandeered medical supplies.
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Two summer programs are also involved, including training in community pharmacy and in hospital pharmacy to improve students' knowledge in pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical skills.
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Not before 1945 he was able to return to his work as a hospital physician and later became hospital director.
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The hospitals physicians were members of the schools teaching faculty.
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Hospital physicians and the head nurse worked as instructors, at no additional cost to the hospital.
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The series documented the lives of the hospital physicians and their patients.
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Many of the hospitals physicians engage in research designed to provide patients with new treatments.
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Government aid would keep her in a hospital room, but not at home, not with the intensive service she needed just to stay alive.
Christianity Today
I stopped outside her hospital room and prayed for ministry wisdom.
Christianity Today
When she wanted to write she would withdraw, persuading a doctor friend to sign her into a private hospital room where nobody could contact her.
Times, Sunday Times
Back in his hospital room, he broke down and cried as never before.
Times, Sunday Times
She has since stayed in her tiny hospital room, with no internet, books or mags to entertain her.
The Sun
In the hospital setting, however, the priority should be good administration that allows us to work to our maximum quality, safety and efficiency.
Times, Sunday Times
We also have crisis houses that offer residential help and support outside a hospital setting.
Times, Sunday Times
But, given by specialists in a hospital setting, immunotherapy was safe and effective.
Times, Sunday Times
The morbidity of the hospital setting, too, keeps things from geting too cosy.
Times, Sunday Times
So these findings - by a team of experienced doctors in a safe, hospital setting - must be welcomed.
The Sun
The disease struck like lightning and hospital staff simply could not save her.
The Sun (2011)
The hospital staff are an inspiration: professional, empathic and compassionate.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The jockey was taken aback to be handed a bus ticket by hospital staff, but a car was dispatched to return him to the racecourse.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Then there's your air ambulance and hospital stay - check your travel insurance for exclusion clauses - not to mention car recovery.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
One was moved 24 times at night during a long hospital stay.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
She had colon cancer, and had recently returned home after a long hospital stay.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
First she caught the C. diff superbug during a hospital stay of just 24 hours.
The Sun (2008)
All coryneform-infected patients had fever and post-operative wound dehiscence leading to a prolonged hospital stay.
2013, 'Emergence of coryneform bacteria as pathogens in nosocomial surgical site infections in a tertiary care hospital of North India', Journal of Infection and Public Health
Nobody who injures themselves playing with fireworks makes the same mistake twice, irrespective of whether a hospital treats the burns.
Times, Sunday Times
The greater the turnover of a supermarket, the more profit it makes; the more patients a hospital treats, the more it costs to run.
Times, Sunday Times
The hospital treats about 100 such cases a year.
Times, Sunday Times
If a hospital treats more patients, it should get more money.
Times, Sunday Times
The hospital treats 230 patients, 365 days a year without major incident.
The Sun
He was taken to a specialist hospital unit.
The Sun
Both needed treatment at a specialist hospital unit.
The Sun
Midwife clinics are surely no more than a hospital unit without any doctors.
Times, Sunday Times
He was moved off the main wing for his safety and got a job in the hospital unit.
The Sun
This often dark and always sardonic sitcom ran from 1972 to 1983 and centred on the antics of the 4077th hospital unit, a mix of civilian doctors and army officers.
The Sun
During a hospital visit, the nun spoke with a patient who told her that she was in great pain.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
At least one hospital worker was suspended during the investigation, but no arrests were made.
The Sun
But a hospital worker heard them discuss erasing the video and told police.
The Sun
One hospital worker said he saw at least seven bodies.
Time Magazine
A hospital worker said he had been sent home after the youngster tested positive.
The Sun
He was arrested after she told a hospital worker the next day.
The Sun
The operation went well and I left hospital the next day.
The Sun (2015)
Mother and baby were able to leave the hospital on Monday after tests showed them to be in good health.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
She was injured, but has since left hospital.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
His condition worsened and the family rushed him to their local hospital in Northampton, where he had a heart attack.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The woman was taken for an examination at the local district hospital.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The mother could have her baby at her local hospital rather than at a specialist centre.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
We rushed him to a makeshift hospital on the beach and thought he'd be all right.
The Sun (2014)
Others were trapped and had to be rescued as a makeshift field hospital was set up.
The Sun (2010)
The chalet was turned into a makeshift hospital.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He died of wounds in a military hospital in 1863, twenty days after the battle.
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Some of those displaced by the war have taken refuge in the military hospital.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
They flew to the military hospital in Germany.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The driver of the van was injured and was taken to a nearby hospital.
Times, Sunday Times
On this occasion he was taken from his home to a nearby hospital, the location of which has not been made public.
Times, Sunday Times
Doctors at a nearby hospital were able to extract the shears and rebuild the interior of the eye socket using metal mesh.
Times, Sunday Times
When he couldn't be woken, a doctor was summoned from a nearby hospital.
Times, Sunday Times
Just months after dialysis began, she was rushed to a nearby hospital for a kidney transplant.
Christianity Today
She frequently praised the $50 million paediatric hospital being built in the southern city.
Times, Sunday Times
It was the first paediatric hospital, and shortly afterwards the first maternity hospital when they installed obstetric and gynaecological clinic in 1915.
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Such progress was promoted by the availability of large clinical series provided by newly founded paediatric hospitals.
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Therefore, paediatric hospitals gradually became an important setting for the application of a modern statistical averaging technique to paediatric syndromes.
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She is currently in a high-security prison hospital but will soon be up for parole.
The Sun (2006)
Both men were transferred to a prison hospital.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He died in a prison hospital.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
But most alien was the ethos that my stay in private hospital should be pleasant and wholly restoring, not a grit-your-teeth ordeal.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Futuristic kit like the private hospital's antigravity treadmill is the stuff of dreams for hobbled athletes.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
The next morning she went behind Sister Kelly's back and arranged with a private hospital to have a Caesarean on the sixth.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
Police were waiting to question the robber as he recovered in hospital from injuries said to be 'non-life threatening'.
The Sun
The fisherman was winched from the water 'in very rough conditions' and was said to be 'in good spirits' as he recovered in hospital.
Times, Sunday Times
She escaped with cuts and bruises and was last night recovering in hospital.
The Sun
Last night he was recovering in hospital with a spine fracture, broken ribs, and hypothermia.
The Sun
Last night he was recovering in hospital - and declining to help with inquiries.
The Sun
The province has one referral hospital, 10 health centers, and 17 health posts.
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The hospital also serves as a referral hospital for a number of hospitals in its referral chain.
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Today, most of the school's clinical facilities are located at this site, including the three main referral hospitals and many of the research facilities.
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There are ambulance services for taking the patients to referral hospitals.
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These are referral hospitals with super speciality facilities.
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He was also a member of the regional hospital board.
Times, Sunday Times
In those we can concentrate our limited spare testing capacity to gain early warning of what doesn't work and have the regional hospital capacity to handle any adverse consequences.
Times,Sunday Times
He founded the town band, which he led for thirty years; he also directed the band of the regional hospital during his career.
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Since its establishment in 1930, the hospital has grown from a small regional hospital to a world-class academic medical center.
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A large regional hospital and two major clinics are located in the city.
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They also painted our rehabilitation hospital.
Times, Sunday Times
The hospital has 101 general and 16 rehabilitation hospital beds.
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While living at the rehabilitation hospital, she developed her sporting ability and skills.
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Some rehabilitation hospitals have physicians on staff; others do not.
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Driver rehabilitation programs are offered in a variety of settings, such as rehabilitation hospitals, hospital outpatient therapy departments, veteran's hospitals, or as private driving schools.
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This can be prevented, however, if you drive him to a rural hospital fifty miles away.
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These posts encompass a variety of medical specialties; emergency medicine; and tertiary centre, regional, and rural hospital rotations.
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Everyone expected that we would clearly see underservice in the rural hospital service areas remote from academic medical centers.
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Its status was changed from health centre to rural hospital in 2000, with a full-time medical doctor.
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State hospitals are run by the state (local) government and may be dispensaries, peripheral health centers, rural hospital, district hospitals or medical college hospitals (hospitals with affiliated medical college).
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Every day, dozens of seriously ill children are transferred to specialist hospitals miles from home to receive treatment.
The Sun (2015)
Often, these people need treatment for mental illness in a specialist hospital.
The Sun (2012)
He was taken to a specialist hospital unit.
The Sun (2013)
A probe has begun after 800 deaths from septicaemia were recorded at a struggling hospital.
The Sun (2013)
They aim to make savings of 311 million over a decade to put the struggling hospital back on to a stable financial footing.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It recommends that consultants be paid more to work at struggling hospitals.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Victims' relatives are suing the hospital.
The Sun (2016)
He intends to sue the hospital for failing in its duty of care.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
An investigation is under way and the families are preparing to sue the hospital.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It was a tertiary hospital that catered medical and health care needs to employees.
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Patients will often be referred from smaller hospitals to a tertiary hospital for major operations, consultations with sub-specialists and when sophisticated intensive care facilities are required.
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Look at our medical schools and tertiary hospitals.
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Patients requiring specialized care (e.g., hemodialysis) not available in the disaster area were airlifted to tertiary hospitals.
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During the tenure as sarpanch village head he raised the veterinary hospital.
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Hospitals and schools were also built, as well as a parish council, veterinary hospital, vicarage, and a rural council building.
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It has a post office, several schools and a veterinary hospital.
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The village has a post office, an old age home and a veterinary hospital.
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The park has the world's largest veterinary hospital.
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Translations:
Chinese: 医院
Japanese: 病院
- mind reels
- mindset
- mind-set
- mind tricks
- mind wanders
- mind (you)
- mind your language
- mind your language/tongue/manners
- mind your languagmanners
- mind your languagtongue
- mind your p's and q's
- mine
- mine accident
- mine clearance
- mine construction
- mine detection
- minefield
- mine of information
- mine owner
- mine pit
- mine plant
- miner
- mineral
- mineral bath
- mineral composition