(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.
Ward
Definition:
(a.) The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1.
(n.) One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.
(n.) The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.
(n.) A guarding or defensive motion or position, as in fencing; guard.
(n.) One who, or that which, is guarded.
(n.) A minor or person under the care of a guardian; as, a ward in chancery.
(n.) A division of a county.
(n.) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city.
(n.) A division of a forest.
(n.) A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward.
(n.) A projecting ridge of metal in the interior of a lock, to prevent the use of any key which has not a corresponding notch for passing it.
(n.) A notch or slit in a key corresponding to a ridge in the lock which it fits; a ward notch.
(n.) To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.
(n.) To defend; to protect.
(n.) To defend by walls, fortifications, etc.
(n.) To fend off; to repel; to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
(v. i.) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
(v. i.) To act on the defensive with a weapon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
(2) A total of 1,268 patients admitted to hospital wards were kept under surveillance by one observer throughout their stay in hospital.
(3) We propose that the results mainly reflect a variable local impact of infection control and that a much more restrictive use of IUTCs is possible in many wards.
(4) Pharmaceutical services were provided from a large tent near the hospital, which consisted of an emergency treatment facility, two operating rooms, and a small medical-surgical ward.
(5) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(6) Transfer between different hospital wards or death were variables found to increase the probability of error.
(7) This has shown that, in spite of higher dose rates in the corridor areas because of the use of an MDR system and the increase in interstitial techniques, the doses to ward nurses have been significantly reduced by encouraging staff to comply with the ALARA principle and the introduction of afterloading systems.
(8) Refractory ischemia developed in the remaining patients while on the ward or in the intensive care unit.
(9) Ethological methods were employed to gather normative data on social behavior in long stay male inpatients in the ward environment.
(10) They were subsequently admitted to a research ward, and 4 days later their BPs were measured at resting baseline and in response to a series of stressful tasks.
(11) The only thing Michael Fabricant could reasonably be vice-chairman of is the steering committee of Nurse Ratched 's ward fete.
(12) The winter vomiting bug norovirus, which also puts strain on the NHS every winter because it leads to wards having to close, has not yet become a major problem, the latest evidence indicates.
(13) The revelations did not alter the huge body of evidence from a variety of scientific fields that supports the conclusion that modern climate change is caused largely by human activity, Ward said.
(14) The kit was also used on the ward by junior medical staff, who showed that after minimal training reproducible serum C reactive protein results could be obtained.
(15) A Hospital Stress Rating Scale questionnaire of 40 items tested for reliability and validity was used to elicit responses from 100 patients from the medical and surgical wards of the selected health care institutions.
(16) In the present study, an attempt was made to isolate and identify pathogenic bacteria, fungi and parasites from the housefly Musca domestica collected in the surgical ward of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital and also in a remote residential area located 5 km from the hospital.
(17) Many child analytic patients use defenses to ward off feelings, many have not even reached the developmental level of experiencing feelings.
(18) (4) Symptoms are exacerbated by a research ward that is disruptive to the community.
(19) We reviewed the routines for providing information on drugs, and for training in the use of drugs and aids to medication in hospital and nursing homes by interviewing 11 ward supervisors.
(20) You couldn’t walk into the ward in your own clothes.