Definition of Hospital room

1. Noun. A room in a hospital for the care of patients.

Specialized synonyms: Emergency Room, Er, Operating Room, Operating Theater, Operating Theatre, Or, Surgery, Recovery Room
Group relationships: Hospital, Infirmary
Generic synonyms: Room

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hospital Room

hospital departments
hospital design and construction
hospital distribution systems
hospital fever
hospital formulary
hospital gangrene
hospital information systems
hospital mortality
hospital nurse
hospital occupancy
hospital planning
hospital record
hospital records
hospital restructuring
hospital room (current term)
hospital shared services
hospital ship
hospital ships
hospital shops
hospital train
hospital units
hospital volunteers
hospital ward
hospitaler
hospitalisable
hospitalisation
hospitalisations
hospitalise
hospitalised

Literary usage of Hospital room

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

1. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Rest or hospital room.—Location.—Some secluded and quiet place. Also advantage to have near teachers' room. Size.—Area of 300 to 400 sq. ft. and should have ..."

2. The Modern Factory: Safety, Sanitation and Welfare by George Moses Price (1914)
"O. Emergency hospital room. who are trained by the company's doctor. Instructions are given to them by the physician, and the training of the men for the ..."

3. Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society by Prison Discipline Society, Mass.) Prison Discipline Society (Boston, Board of Managers (1851)
"Over these cells is a hospital room, 21 by 15 feet, having in it a sink, pipes for hot and ... Adjoining the hospital room is the work room, 33 by 34 feet, ..."

4. Advanced First-aid Instructions for Miners: A Report on Standardization by George H. Halberstadt, United States Bureau of Mines, August F. Knoefel, William Aloysius Lynott, Walter Scott Rountree, Matthew Joseph Shields (1917)
"SURFACE hospital room. Where a large number of men are employed, there should be available on the surface a room provided with suitable hospital facilities ..."

5. Saleswomen in Mercantile Stores, Baltimore, 1909 by Elizabeth Beardsley Butler (1912)
"In one case, the maid has duties on another floor and comes only upon call; in another case, the maid is in charge jointly of the hospital room and of the ..."

6. Saleswomen in Mercantile Stores, Baltimore, 1909 by Elizabeth Beardsley Butler (1912)
"In one case, the maid has duties on another floor and comes only upon call; in another case, the maid is in charge jointly of the hospital room and of the ..."

7. Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not by Florence Nightingale (1912)
"This may be a want; just as there may be a want of hospital room for adults. But the Registrar- General would certainly never think of giving us as a cause ..."

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