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sanitarium

[ san-i-tair-ee-uhm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural san·i·tar·i·ums, san·i·tar·i·a [san-i-, tair, -ee-, uh].

an institution for the preservation or recovery of health, especially for convalescence; health resort.

sanitarium

/ ˌsænɪˈtɛərɪəm /

1850–55; < Latin sānit ( ās ) health ( sanity ) + -ārium -ary

C19: from Latin sānitās health

I never made it all the way through the novel’s saga of Hans Castorp’s stay in a sanitarium for patients seeking treatment for tuberculosis.

One such home, in the city of Sochi, used to be a sanitarium.

Then I began to tell people at the sanitarium and wired my friends in Berlin advising them how to get out of Germany.

But I was comforted by the fact that though there were plenty of wealthy men in our sanitarium, they were all in the same box.

The other letter was addressed to the doctor at the sanitarium.

The official-looking letter was from a sanitarium in Indiana.

The question was, how soon must she leave the sanitarium and how proceed?

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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