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Definition of Hospices
1. hospice [n] - See also: hospice
Medical Definition of Hospices
1. Facilities or services which are especially devoted to providing palliative and supportive care to the patient with a terminal illness and to the patient's family. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hospices
Literary usage of Hospices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Charities of France in 1866: An Account of Some of the Principal Existing by William Richards Lawrence (1867)
"HOSPITALS AND hospices. ) 3 has already been stated, from the earliest period
hospitals and hospices formed an integral part of the religious establishments ..."
2. Reports of Cases in Chancery, Argued and Determined in the Rolls Court by Charles Beavan, Henry Bickersteth Langdale, John Romilly Romilly, Chaloner William Chute (1868)
"hospices; ATT.-GEN. 3rdly. Establishments of a Special Character. The establishments
devoted to the sick are more particularly designated by the name of ..."
3. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"The work of these is supplemented by the Commissions des hospices, of which there
are only 334. With unimportant exceptions, they confine their attention to ..."
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