2.5.7.4 Hospital

Use this domain for words that refer to a place where the sick and injured are treated.

OMC Codes: 
743 Hospitals and Clinics
  • What words refer to a place where the sick and injured are treated?
    hospital, infirmary, hospice, clinic, medical center, health center, doctor's office, the doctor's, dispensary, aid post/station, nursing home,
  • What words refer to a hospital for people who are mentally ill?
    mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, institution, asylum,
  • What are the parts of a hospital?
    ward, unit, operating room, operating theater, emergency room, casualty department, accident and emergency, lab, x-ray room, nurses' station, intensive care, surgery, waiting room, mortuary, morgue,
  • What words refer to a place where medicine is kept or given out?
    pharmacy, medicine cabinet,
  • What words refer to a vehicle for transporting the injured?
    ambulance, hospital ship
  • What words refer to putting someone in the hospital?
    hospitalize
  • What words refer to a sick person in a hospital?
    patient, inpatient, outpatient,
  • What words refer to being a patient in a hospital?
    go to the hospital, have someone in, stay in the hospital, hospital stay, admit, discharge,