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cottage hospital [1 record]

Record 1 2007-07-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Health Institutions
DEF

A general hospital, usually maintained by a municipality but sometimes privately owned, originally designed to provide general practitioners with bed privileges for treating their own patients in hospital.

OBS

An old-fashioned term used in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and in Newfoundland, Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Établissements de santé

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Establecimientos de salud
OBS

Es un hospital que cuenta con pocas camas.

OBS

hospital de pabellones: Galicismo incorrecto. La palabra francesa "pavillon" se refiere a una construcción pequeña y no a lo que se denomina "pabellón" en español: edificio que constituye una dependencia de otro mayor, inmediato o próximo a aquel.

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