HOSPITAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hospital mean? 

• HOSPITAL (noun)
  The noun HOSPITAL has 2 senses:

1. a health facility where patients receive treatment

2. a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care

  Familiarity information: HOSPITAL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOSPITAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A health facility where patients receive treatment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hospital; infirmary

Hypernyms ("hospital" is a kind of...):

health facility; healthcare facility; medical building (building where medicine is practiced)

Meronyms (parts of "hospital"):

burn center (a center where patients with severe burns can be treated)

clinic (a healthcare facility for outpatient care)

hospital room (a room in a hospital for the care of patients)

hospital ward; ward (block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hospital"):

creche; foundling hospital (a hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for)

lazar house; lazaret; lazarette; lazaretto; pesthouse (hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy))

maternity hospital (a hospital that provides care for women during pregnancy and childbirth and for newborn infants)

asylum; insane asylum; institution; mental home; mental hospital; mental institution; psychiatric hospital (a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person)

military hospital (hospital for soldiers and other military personnel)

sanatarium; sanatorium; sanitarium (a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases)

Derivation:

hospitalize (admit into a hospital)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("hospital" is a kind of...):

medical institution (an institution created for the practice of medicine)

Meronyms (parts of "hospital"):

coronary care unit (a hospital unit specially staffed and equipped to treat patients with serious cardiac problems)

ICU; intensive care unit (a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care)

Derivation:

hospitalize (admit into a hospital)

 Context examples 

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale test name.

(CDISC Questionnaire HADS Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A professional who is responsible for making a child's hospital and treatment experience less scary.

(Child-life worker, NCI Dictionary)

But it would take time for the new method to become available in hospitals.

(New method to classify brain tumour in children, SciDev.Net)

Test names of questionnaire questions associated with the hospital anxiety and depression scale questionnaire for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC Questionnaire HADS Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale test code.

(CDISC Questionnaire HADS Test Code Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

“Prescribing patterns for diuretics vary among hospitals,” said Anne Zajicek, M.D., Pharm. D., the study’s senior author.

(Diuretic therapy for extremely preterm infants does not alleviate respiratory problems, National Institutes of Health)

Learn about everything from how the body works to what happens when you go to the hospital.

(Children's Page, NIH)

However, some hospitals preferentially give fresh red blood cells to critically ill children, even though clinical studies supporting the benefits of this practice have been lacking.

(Fresh red blood cell transfusions do not help critically ill children more than older cells, National Institutes of Health)

Wastewater from residential areas has similar or even higher levels of antibiotic resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes compared to hospitals, where you would expect greater antibiotic concentrations, he said.

(Toothpaste and Hand Wash Are Causing Antibiotic Resistance, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In another manifestation, you might be visiting a close family member in the hospital or advocating for an elderly relative who needs your help.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)