Definition of Field hospital

1. Noun. A temporary military hospital near the battle lines.


Definition of Field hospital

1. Noun. A large mobile medical unit that temporarily takes care of casualties before they can be safely transported to more permanent hospital facilities. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Hospital

field general
field goal
field goals
field grade
field gradient
field guide
field gun
field hand
field hands
field hockey
field hockey ball
field horsetail
field horsetails
field hospital (current term)
field hospitals
field house
field hut
field identification
field intensity
field ion microscope
field judge
field lens
field line
field lines
field lupine
field magnet
field maple
field marigold

Literary usage of Field hospital

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"From the field hospital he is transferred as soon as possible by the ambulance train to the general hospital at the advanced base of operations, ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"... other articles for field hospital service in “ canteens ;“ of articles of light nourishment, stimu. mute, thc., in “ medical comfort boxes;” of hospital ..."

3. Campaigning in Cuba by George Kennan (1899)
"CHAPTER XII THE FIELD-HOSPITAL ON the morning of Friday, July 1, Dr. Egan and I, with three Cuban soldiers put at our service by General Castillo, ..."

4. The Lancet (1898)
"Owing to the distribution of the equipment in districts a field hospital cao be promptly mobilised, and on one occasion recently sixteen field hospitals ..."

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