Hospital vs Sanatorium - What's the difference?
hospital | sanatorium |
A building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying. Usually has a staff of doctors and nurses to aid in the treatment of patients.
A building founded for the long term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
(obsolete) A place of lodging.
* , II.ix:
The place and state of being hospitalized.
an institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
As nouns the difference between hospital and sanatorium
is that hospital is a building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying. Usually has a staff of doctors and nurses to aid in the treatment of patients while sanatorium is an institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence.As an adjective hospital
is hospitable.hospital
English
(wikipedia hospital)Noun
(en noun)- they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale , / They thither marcht [...].
- Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital .
