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hospital(2) (iou) and child, unwanted (medicine)


hospital(2) (iou)



hospital noun. ME.

Hist. A house for the reception and Entertainment of pilgrims, travellers, or strangers; any of the establishments of the Knights Hospitallers. ME.
A charitable institution for the housing and maintenance of the needy; an asylum for the destitute, infirm, or aged. Now chiefly in surviving proper names. ME.
b. gen. A place of lodging. Only in 16.
c. A house for lodging students in a university; a hostel or hall. M16-E18.
d. A charitable institution for the Education etc. of the young. Now only Scots Law (Hist.) and in surviving proper names, (as Christ's Hospital, a public school formerly in London). M16.
An institution or establishment providing medical or surgical treatment for the ill or wounded. M16.
cottage hospital, eye hospital, General hospital, isolation hospital, etc. in hospital, (US) in the hospital receiving treatment, spec. as an in-patient, at a hospital. to hospital to a hospital for treatment. walk the hospitals: see WALK verb1.
b. An establishment for the treatment of sick or injured animals. E17.
Comb.: hospital ball = hospital pass below; hospital bed (a) a bed for a patient in a hospital, usu. higher than an ordinary bed to facilitate nursing; (b) an available place for an in-patient at a hospital; hospital blue(s) the uniform worn by wounded soldiers in the wars of 1914-18 and 1939-45; hospital corners a way of tucking sheets, used by nurses; hospital fever typhus acquired in overcrowded, insanitary conditions in a hospital; hospital gangrene: caused by sepsis in a hospital; hospital gown: see GOWN noun 4; hospital pass in Football etc., a pass to a player likely to be tackled heavily as soon as it is received; hospital ship: to receive sick and wounded seamen, or to take sick and wounded soldiers Home; hospital train: taking wounded soldiers from a battlefield.

child, unwanted (medicine)


child, unwanted


The child who is not wanted by one or both parents.