(n.) A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn.
(n.) A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for.
(a.) Hospitable.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(2) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(3) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
(4) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
(5) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
(6) No significant change occurred in the bacterial population of our hospital unit during the period of the study (more than 3 years).
(7) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(8) The difference in BP between a hospital casual reading and the mean 24 hour ambulatory reading was reduced only by atenolol.
(9) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
(10) Twelve patients with South American mococutaneous leishmaniasis who attended the Hospital Amazonico in Peru between February and September 1974 were treated with amphotericin B.
(11) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
(12) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
(13) Data collection at the old hospital for comparison, however, was not always reliable.
(14) Since 1979, patients started on long-term lithium treatment at the Psychiatric Hospital in Risskov have been followed systematically with recording of clinical and laboratory variables before the start of treatment, after 6 and 12 months of treatment, and thereafter at yearly intervals.
(15) In a random sample of 1,000 neonates from a Delhi Hospital the incidence of jaundice was 53% and of hyperbilirubinaemia (HB) 6%.
(16) The hospital mortality was 2.4% in group A and 2.6% in group B.
(17) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
(18) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
(19) The vulvar white keratotic lesions which have been subjected to histological examination in Himeji National Hospital (1973-1987) included 13 cases in benign dermatoses, 4 cases in vulvar epithelial hyperplasia, 3 cases in lichen sclerosus, and 3 cases in lichen sclerosus with foci of epithelial hyperplasia.
(20) None of the children in the study showed clinical symptoms of acquired subglottic stenosis before discharge from hospital, and none has been readmitted for this condition subsequently.
Solarium
Definition:
(n.) An apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents.
(n.) Any one of several species of handsome marine spiral shells of the genus Solarium and allied genera. The shell is conical, and usually has a large, deep umbilicus exposing the upper whorls. Called also perspective shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Likewise, Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, prescribed sun worship as a vital constituent of heath and had a solarium installed on the island of Kos.
(2) The latter procedure, however, appeared to prevent changes in blood lymphocyte subsets that are induced by solarium radiation as well as the reduction in Langerhans cell numbers in skin biopsies taken after exposure to solarium radiation.
(3) We have previously shown that UVR from sun or solarium beds may induce systemic effects in human subjects.
(4) Because risk increases with the approximate square of annual solarium exposure, it is not possible to define a 'safe' level of exposure.
(5) Application of the sunscreen agent also did not protect against effects of solarium exposure on recall antigen skin tests and immunoglobulin production in vitro in pokeweed mitogen-stimulated cultures of B and T cells.
(6) Instead, it is shown that weekly use of a UVA solarium from age 20 until middle age (40-50) gives a relative cumulative incidence of 1.3 compared with non-users of sun beds and sun canopies.
(7) In the present study we tried to determine whether the effects on NK cell activity were caused by the UVB or the UVA components of radiation from solarium lamps by filtering out UVB with Mylar sheeting.
(8) Another patient with a solarium-pseudoporphyria is presented, and a review of the cases published so far is given.
(9) The risk of non-melanoma skin cancer in northern Europeans who indulge in sunbathing or use a UVA solarium was estimated using a mathematical model of skin cancer incidence that makes allowance for childhood, occupational and recreational sun exposure.
(10) The highest daily doses were equivalent to the doses received during one session in a commercial solarium.
(11) Previous studies have shown that ultraviolet radiation (UVR) from solarium lamps suppressed natural killer (NK) cell activity in the blood and that sunscreen lotions offered no protection against this effect.
(12) We are truly talking about trivial costs when UV protection is contrasted to what people spend on getting extra UV exposure at the solarium, spa, ski slopes, beach, mountains, etc.
(13) Groups of 12 normal subjects were exposed to radiation from solarium lamps after application of a sunscreen agent or the base used in its preparation.
(14) In subjects hypersensitive to nickel we have investigated local and systemic effect of whole body exposure of cumulative suberythema UVB doses as well as solarium-UVA exposure.
(15) The use of a UVA solarium is also shown to increase the risk of skin cancer.
(16) NK cell activity was depressed in the group exposed to solarium radiation and this was not prevented by filtration through Mylar.
(17) Bogn Engiadina, which celebrates its 20th anniversary next year, is a huge spa with six indoor and outdoor pools, steam room, solarium, sauna and fitness centre, drawing visitors in winter and summer.
(18) "The facilities include a sauna, solarium and video studio."