infirmary

as in hospital
a place for the treatment of those who are ill or injured The school's infirmary has reported an increase in flu cases.

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Recent Examples of infirmary During the sole year of Freud’s residency here, this space largely functioned as an infirmary. Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 12 Sep. 2024 As her medical condition worsened, she was moved to the Singer Center infirmary May 4. Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 31 July 2024 After being founded in 1886 as a single infirmary on Third and Oak streets, the company has slowly expanded its services and campuses, now employing more than 21,000 people in the Louisville Metro with more than 400 facilities and providers across 31 counties in Kentucky and Indiana. Keisha Rowe, The Courier-Journal, 3 Apr. 2024 In a small infirmary, a prisoner was talking with a medic. Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for infirmary 

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“Infirmary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infirmary. Accessed 5 Dec. 2024.

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