sick bay

as in hospital
a place for the treatment of those who are ill or injured The new naval vessel includes a state-of-the-art sick bay.

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Recent Examples of sick bay The project will include four kennel runs, a cat quarantine room and sick bay, clinic room with two surgery bays, office and storage areas, an education meeting room and a sally port. Susan McFarland, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023 Doorways on one side lead into a rabbit’s warren of corridors and rooms, including cramped sailors’ quarters, comfy officers’ bedrooms, kitchens, sick bays, even a barbershop and a laundry—a reminder that 4,000 sailors and officers at a time used to call this ship home. Will Knight, WIRED, 25 July 2023 At Fox Hill, which is more formally called the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services facility, Bankman-Fried shared the one-room sick bay with four other men. Katanga Johnson, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2022 With a wave of this fictional device, a Starfleet crew member could get a comprehensive medical analysis without having to be admitted to the ship’s sick bay. Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 29 May 2015 See All Example Sentences for sick bay
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Noun
  • Moore woke up Sunday morning in a hospital room — just hours after his wife, Sidney, had given birth to their third child, a healthy baby girl named Saleh.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Among the injured, four were in critical condition at area hospitals.
    NPR, NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Fred Singleton passed away Monday at the Kirkland Correctional Institution’s infirmary, the South Carolina Department of Corrections announced on Friday.
    Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • There is also a two-page memo by a sergeant who was in the infirmary when Brooks was attacked that echoes their version of events.
    Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025

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“Sick bay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sick%20bay. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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