open ward
Medicine
noun
1A large open-plan ward for the accommodation of many patients.
2A ward in a psychiatric hospital allowing relative freedom of movement to patients.
Origin
Early 20th century; earliest use found in Science.
- carborane
- carborundum
- carbostyril
- car-bound
- carbowax
- carboxy
- carboxydismutase
- carboxyhaemoglobin
- carboxykinase
- carboxyl
- carboxylase
- carboxylate
- carboxylation
- carboxylic acid
- carboxyl-terminal
- carboxymethylated
- carboxymethylation
- carboxymethylcellulose
- carboxypeptidase
- carboxypolypeptidase
- carboxy-terminal
- carboxy terminus
- carboy
- car bra
- carbro