(n.) The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality.
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.
Inhospitable
Definition:
(a.) Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.
(a.) Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not one life was lost – though of course millions of votes might well have perished in this inhospitable terrain.
(2) Taken together, these correlations indicate that the wasp may render the tick inhospitable to both pathogens.
(3) All diseases and symptoms were included on the basis of four criteria: conditions which pose immediate life or limb threat; conditions which potentially require inhospital treatment; conditions which give rise to significant discomfort to the patient and conditions with medicolegal implications.
(4) Where there were hospitals, they were usually inadequately provided for and inhospitable.
(5) It’s as if the 21-million-strong population of the Chinese capital is engaged in a mass city-wide rehearsal for life on an inhospitable planet.
(6) It was concluded that survival after inhospital cardiopulmonary arrest is significantly increased if house officers who staff the Code teams are trained in ACLS.
(7) Meanwhile, each supercharged natural disaster produces new irony laden snapshots of a climate increasingly inhospitable to the very industries most responsible for its warming.
(8) In Lima, Peru, overall contraceptives prevalence is 13% higher among women in inhospital family planning services that offer postplacental and immediate postpartum IUD insertion than it is in those that do not include them.
(9) The adjustment process is divided into seven distinct stages: 1) transplant proposal, 2) evaluation, 3) awaiting a donor organ, 4) perioperative period, 5) inhospital convalescence, 6) discharge, and 7) post-discharge adaptation.
(10) Inhospital variables were found to be the best predictors for all three outcome measures.
(11) A distant, inhospitable but resource-rich land, Chukotkans were compensated handsomely for living there under Soviet power (as the US still compensates Alaskans).
(12) Twenty-four patients were conscious on admission; their inhospital mortality rate was 4%.
(13) Between October 1989-October 1990, health workers collected data on clinical presentation, receipt of transfusion, inhospital survival, and a capillary blood sample from 2433 12-year old children (median age=10 months) admitted to the pediatric ward of the Siaya District Hospital in rural western Kenya to determine when transfusion influences survival of children in the hospital.
(14) These data indicate that, in patients with postanoxic coma, early clinical evidence of severe neurologic dysfunction is predictive of neither inhospital death nor neurologic sequelae.
(15) Urban and rural differences in place of death were significant for two places of death; street and highway, and inhospital deaths.
(16) This study assesses the inhospital costs of neonatal intensive care.
(17) At baseline, mean inhospital plasma glucose and HbA1 concentrations and insulin dosages were identical in the groups randomized to CSII or CIT.
(18) The burn rates were based on data collected during the National Burn Demonstration Project and consisted of patients who sustained burns between July 1, 1978, and June 30, 1979, and who required inhospital care.
(19) The families of children who sustain abdominal or GU trauma have special teaching needs related to inhospital or home management, as well as long-term outcomes of the injury.
(20) Rejection of helminth parasites from rodent small bowel is associated with partial villous atrophy and crypt hypertrophy, which is probably part of the host response making the mucosa inhospitable to the parasites.