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Definition of Field hospital
1. Noun. A temporary military hospital near the battle lines.
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
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
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 ..."