infirmarynoun [ C ]
uk/ɪnˈfɜː.mər.i/us/ɪnˈfɝː.mɚ.ri/US a room in a school, college, or university where students who are injured or feeling ill can go to a nurse for treatment
UK old use a hospital. It is now used mainly in the names of hospitals:
Leeds General Infirmary
the Royal Infirmary
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Medical places & organizations
- A & E
- asylum
- detoxification centre
- ear, nose, and throat
- emergency room
- ENT
- er
- Harley Street
- health maintenance organization
- intensive care
- lunatic asylum
- madhouse
- Medicare
- mental hospital
- operating room
- outpatients
- sanitarium
- surgery
- the funny farm
- theatre
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