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Lazaretto

A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with contagious diseases.

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Cabinet 76% connected

A hut; a cottage; a small house.

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Hospital 76% connected

A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn.

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Infirmary 76% connected

A hospital, or place where the infirm or sick are lodged and nursed gratuitously, or where out-patients are treated.

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Locker 76% connected

One who, or that which, locks.

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Lazaret 92% connected

Alt. of Lazaretto

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Pesthouse 92% connected

A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.

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Acceptation noun · 78% connection

Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.

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Adoption noun · 78% connection

Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into an…

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Alexiteric noun · 78% connection

A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general.

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Ban noun · 78% connection

A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.

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Board noun · 78% connection

A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or…

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Bridewell noun · 78% connection

A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridg…

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Canker verb · 78% connection

To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.

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Common nuisance noun · 78% connection

a nuisance that unreasonably interferes with a right that is common to the general public; "a public nuisance offends the public at la…

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Contagionist noun · 78% connection

One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.

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Entertainment noun · 78% connection

The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.

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Ergotism noun · 78% connection

A diseased condition produced by eating rye affected with the ergot fungus.

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Fever noun · 78% connection

A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, inclu…

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Germ theory noun · 78% connection

(medicine) the theory that all contagious diseases are caused by microorganisms

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Germicide adjective · 78% connection

Destructive to germs; -- applied to any agent which has a destructive action upon living germs, particularly bacteria, or bacterial ge…

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Hospitalism noun · 78% connection

A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.

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Hospitalize verb · 78% connection

To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.

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Inquest noun · 78% connection

A body of men assembled under authority of law to inquire into any matterm civil or criminal, particularly any case of violent or sudd…

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Insane adjective · 78% connection

Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital.

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