infirmary

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If you're innocent, you're more likely to die in the prison infirmary than you are in the death chamber.

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a health facility where patients receive treatment

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noun

a health facility where patients receive treatment

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for infirmary.

noun

a health facility where patients receive treatment

Example sentences

If you're innocent, you're more likely to die in the prison infirmary than you are in the death chamber.

When he got out of the infirmary months later he was 2cm shorter from vertebrae compression than when he joined the RAF.

A wet tired man would have been brought to the airport infirmary where a few questions would have been asked verifying his story while he was checked for hypothermia.

They led him off to the infirmary, still bent at 90 degrees, and when he came back from medical leave they decided that lifting magazines should no longer be part of his job.

Probably similarly to the "Downfall" Hitler parody, or the "he's delusional, take him to the infirmary" from Chernobyl, take your pick.

This isn't for humane purposes, but because putting a soldier into the infirmary with medical staff necessary to support him poses a greater cost to the enemy than simply killing him.

There are plural accounts, but there is only a single documented case historians have evidence for of the British at Fort Pitt deliberately using infected items from their infirmary.