Meanings
comparative more hospitallike · superlative most hospitallike
- Resembling or characteristic of a hospital.
Well, you know, you kind of put your finger on it when you talked about the hospitallike nature of many nursing homes.
2005 August 23, Neal Conan, “Finding the Best Care for Mom and Dad”, in NPR2 more examples
“You need skilled specialists available in hospitallike settings to manage patient caseloads and, especially, to deal with high-needs patients on respirators or [others] who need special care,” says Padula, who is now expanding his analysis to include doctors.
2020 August 4, Karen Weintraub, “Not Just Ventilators: Staff Trained to Run Them Are in Short Supply”, in Scientific AmericanKevin Hall, a scientist at the National Institutes of Health, recruited 20 volunteers and confined them to a hospitallike area in Maryland to study the effects of different diets.
2023 January 11, Tanya Lewis, Josh Fischman, Lori Youmshajekian, Carin Leong & Elah Feder, “What Are Ultraprocessed Foods, and Are They Bad for You?”, in Scientific American
Origin
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