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Definition of Hospital ward
1. Noun. Block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care. "They put her in a 4-bed ward"
Generic synonyms: Block
Specialized synonyms: Detox, Maternity Ward
Group relationships: Hospital, Infirmary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hospital Ward
Literary usage of Hospital ward
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman (1891)
"AN ARMY hospital ward. Let me specialize a visit I made to the collection of
barrack- like one-story edifices, Campbell hospital, out on the flats, ..."
2. Hospital Plans: Five Essays Relating to the Construction, Organization by Johns Hopkins Hospital, John Shaw Billings, Norton Folsom, Joseph Jones, Caspar Morris, Stephen Smith (1875)
"No system of diluting the air of an hospital ward will give absolute security
from the action of contagion, and we can therefore understand why it is that ..."
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