sickbay

Meanings

nounsickbay (plural sickbays)

plural sickbays · alternative sick bay

A place used as a hospital on board a ship, or on a spaceship (in science fiction).
A room or area for the treatment of the sick or injured in a school.
It was the piano lesson again—an orange-tiled floor, one high window, a new upright in a bare room close to the sickbay,
2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 3

Similar

noun(nautical) a room for the treatment of the sick or injured (as on a ship)

Similar

sick berth

Broader

Also see

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

From sick + bay.

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