sanitarium

noun

as in sanatorium

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Recent Examples of sanitarium Her sanitarium was the talk of the world in 1912. — Gregg Olsen, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026 Why show Franz playing tug-of-war naked at a sanitarium with a bunch of men wearing animal masks? — Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025 The hospice is more like a sanitarium, a European spa our parents might have frequented before the war. — Literary Hub, 16 Feb. 2026 After the fair, the Spanish consulate donated the building to the City of Chicago for use as a fresh-air sanitarium. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026 One tricky problem Harvey Kellogg tried to solve at the sanitarium was treating the many patients there who suffered from severe gastrointestinal issues. — Heather Bushman, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026 Just like today, drug addiction often started with painkillers given for an injury, as was the case with hunky actor Wallace Reid, who died in 1923 at a sanitarium where he was being treated for morphine addiction after a train accident. — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 23 Dec. 2022 He was injured in a car accident in New York City following the 1912 World Series, and two months later died aboard a train while enroute to California to recuperate at a sanitarium. — Libby Cierzniak, IndyStar, 20 Feb. 2026 The phrase is sometimes attributed to Hippocrates, but probably comes from Edward Livingston Trudeau, a physician who founded a nineteenth-century tuberculosis sanitarium in upstate New York, when antibiotics did not exist. — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
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  1. sanatorium
  2. hospital
  3. hospice
  4. sanitorium
Noun
  • In May, after a multiyear renovation, the property, which spent the better part of the last century as a physical and mental wellness sanatorium, reopened as a modern spa resort.
    — Veronica M. Stoddart, Travel + Leisure, 30 June 2026
  • Overall Winner World Food Photography Awards The Khoja Obi Garm sanatorium (health hotel) is a colossal concrete complex built on radon-rich hot springs in the mountains of Tajikistan.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Definition of sanatorium
Noun
  • Paramedics took the child to the hospital, where the toddler died, Grace Mariot, a police spokeswoman, said.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 6 July 2026
  • The temperatures were so hot in France that the lack of air conditioning in many parts of hospitals is posing a health risk.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
Definition of hospital
Noun
  • Gallagher is accused in the March 21, 2022, killing of her uncle, Thomas Arthur Burke, a 74-year-old who was dying of cancer while in hospice care at his Fort Lauderdale home.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
  • My personal experience of AIDS comes from my aunt, Lory Lobiondo, who became a hospice nurse after her best friend died of AIDS in 1987.
    — Sarah Schulman, Literary Hub, 29 June 2026
Definition of hospice
Noun
  • Italian designer Matteo Thun was responsible for the makeover of what used to be a sanitorium.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
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