(n.) A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp., a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price.
(n.) A dispensatory.
Example Sentences:
(1) Participation of the population in survey I was 41.7% and was greatest (62%) in the locality where there was a newly established dispensary.
(2) It is emphasized that patients after ophthalmic herpes should be kept under dispensary observation.
(3) It shows that while accessibility in the study area improved between 1979 and 1982 through the establishment of more dispensaries and maternity and child-welfare centres, the relative efficiency of locations has remained low.
(4) The mode of administration of chemotherapy is evaluated, in conditions of integration, and under strict supervision, in tuberculosis patients in 12 medical dispensaries and in 6 enterprise dispensaries from Craiova over a period of one year.
(5) The authors compare the respective therapeutic efficiency of chloroquine and amodiaquine in the treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria fever in urban dispensaries.
(6) This action is followed by an active dispensary care and by lessons of health education, aimed at preventing metabolic decompensations and the early occurrence of degenerative chronic complications.
(7) Tuberculosis infection level in children living together with subjects of groups I, II, Va, Vb and VII dispensary record and tuberculin sensitivity in adults were determined.
(8) The dispensary's owners, Ean Seeb, 37, and Kayvan Khalatbari, 29, are two smokers not apparently devoid of ambition.
(9) The analysis of the results obtained has shown that normalization of intraocular pressure within the first year of dispensary treatment was achieved in 260 (55.4%) patients; surgical treatment was used in 144 (30.7%) patients.
(10) Twelve women of gynecologic dispensary of Hospital del Salvador are studied, making measurements of several ultrasound parameters of urinary bladder (diameters and perimeters), with known volumes instilled through catheterization.
(11) The number of dispensaries in Denver has actually fallen since 2010, when tougher regulation came in.
(12) Such patients should be under dispensary observation of a children's surgeon.
(13) One dispensary is intended to serve several villages together.
(14) The paper discusses the development of oncological service in Ulyanovsk region since 1946 when a 35-bedded dispensary was opened.
(15) The results substantiate the need for setting up inter-district specialized oncologic dispensary-affiliated centres providing adequate diagnosis and treatment of esophageal cancer.
(16) The necessity of dispensary follow-up of young patients with obesity has been considered.
(17) At the background of the organized treatment and prophylactic measures progress in the disease was observed only in 4.7 per cent (14 persons) of the patients included into the dispensary group.
(18) Infection seemed to have been transmitted within a room by hands of nursing staff with spread into other rooms through the dispensary.
(19) Children with the aggravated heredity to diabetes should be placed under dispensary observation.
(20) From the viewpoint of the forms of disease radiophotographic detection brings to the dispensary two-thirds of the oligo- and asymptomatic cases.
Infirmary
Definition:
(n.) A hospital, or place where the infirm or sick are lodged and nursed gratuitously, or where out-patients are treated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-six patients with nasolabial cysts were treated at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary from 1969 to 1986.
(2) Figures for the Royal Infirmary, Perth, the main referral hospital for the county, are also given for comparison.
(3) Investigations are under way at 13 hospital trusts – including Broadmoor, Stoke Mandeville and Leeds General Infirmary – but Jeremy Hunt said new inquiries could be launched after the Metropolitan police found "further relevant information" about Savile.
(4) A series of 155 patients who underwent nephrectomy for renal carcinoma between 1965 and 1985 at Manchester Royal Infirmary were analysed for survival in relationship to presenting features, surgical staging and histopathology.
(5) The implementation of resource management at the Radcliffe Infirmary made clinical managers responsible for their ward budgets.
(6) Jimmy Savile told hospital staff he interfered with patients' corpses, taking grotesque photographs and stealing glass eyes for jewellery, over two decades at the mortuary of Leeds general infirmary.
(7) All 197 patients admitted to the Bristol Royal Infirmary during the 16 year period 1970-1985, and diagnosed as having Dukes' A colorectal cancers, were studied.
(8) A clinico-pathological review of 520 patients with hepatic cirrhosis coming to necropsy at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow over the period 1900-69 is reported.
(9) We encountered three such lesions over 2 years in the Massachusetts Eye Ear Infirmary, and another was retrieved from the recent files.
(10) Simon Bailey, professor of paediatric neuro-oncology at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, said: "To make real progress in treatment there needs to be urgent, significant funding.
(11) Looking back through old copies of 'NATNews' of twenty years ago we found an article by W. D. Mackennan, then Consultant Dental Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.
(12) Knowledge of HIV and knowledge of, attitudes to and use of the condom were assessed by a survey of a sample of 778 heterosexual patients attending the genito-urinary medicine clinic at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
(13) Data was collected prospectively on all patients from one health district attending the Hand Unit at Derbyshire Royal Infirmary to determine the needs for hand surgery and the resources utilised to meet them.
(14) Leicester Royal Infirmary bosses admitted the failure after Lydia Spilner was admitted in January last year with a suspected chest infection and dehydration.
(15) Fifteen years after a partial maxillectomy and radiation therapy for left antral carcinoma, a 53-year-old woman presented to the Eye Plastics and Orbit Service of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, with phthisis and a large, black corneal lesion in the left eye.
(16) The suspension of children's heart surgery at Leeds general infirmary and the subsequent battle to restart operations is a foretaste of what will become a familiar chain of events in the NHS post Mid-Staffordshire.
(17) In response to a previous study of GPs' and consultants' satisfaction with orthopaedic outpatient referrals, orthopaedic surgeons at Doncaster Royal Infirmary made themselves available for telephone consultations with general practitioners (GPs) at advertised times.
(18) We have examined the prevalence and nature of chronic liver disease among 538 patients with functioning renal allografts managed at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, between 1980 and 1989.
(19) Three investigations were launched at Stoke Mandeville, Leeds general infirmary and Broadmoor hospital after details emerged about cases of alleged abuse by Savile in hospitals.
(20) "However, the fact that we have dealt with other cases against the same hospital in similar circumstances is of great concern and we are urging the trust to prove to the local community it serves that real improvements have since been made to elderly patient care at Leicester Royal Infirmary.