field hospitaln.
/ˈfiːld ˌhɒspᵻtl/, U.S. /ˈfild ˌhɑspɪdl/ 1. A temporary or mobile military hospital; esp. one set up near a combat zone to treat the wounded. Cf. ambulance n. 1.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > military or field hospital
field station1610
field hospital1690
military hospital1747
general hospital1775
ambulance1800
station hospital1827
base hospital1864
clearing-hospital1914
clearing-station1915
MASH1950
1690 T. L. Life & Reign Innocent XI 36 The Popes Nuncio by his Order distributed 200 thousand Florius, the one half for such Hungarians as had forsaken Count Teckeley, the other half for a Field Hospital for sick and wounded Soldiers.
1752 J. Pringle Observ. Dis. Army iii. ii. 174 The hardness of a soldier's bed in field hospitals, makes it inconvenient to lay blisters to the back.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 635 Movable field hospitals..to be made of tents.
1931 Amer. Mercury Feb. 142/2 The more serious cases..were kept longer at the regimental dressing-stations or field hospitals.
2002 G. Mccafferty They had no Choice xvi. 95 Eric had been picked up by stretcher-bearers and taken to a field hospital.
2. In extended use. A temporary hospital set up to provide (esp. emergency) medical care in an area affected by famine, a natural disaster, an outbreak of an infectious disease, etc.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > other types of hospital
general hospital1647
private hospital1763
community hospital1843
day hospital1843
cottage hospital1849
field hospital1861
isolation hospital1891
teaching hospital1963
1861 J. W. Leahy Let. 7 Apr. in Trans. Ethnol. Soc. London (1867) 5 51 Before this terrible earthquake, the city of Mendoza and the surrounding neighbourhood had a population of fifteen thousand... There are about one thousand wounded, many serious cases, chiefly compound fractures of the legs. We are establishing a field hospital close to the town.
1931 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 May 859/2 With the establishment on Thursday of the field hospital at Greenmeadows and the dressing stations in Napier, all medical practitioners in Napier were invited to co-operate in the work to be done.
1982 N.Y. Times 12 Aug. a16/6 In view of the increasing number of wounded civilians and lack of sufficient local medical personnel and facilities in west Beirut, the Red Cross plans to open its own 60-bed emergency field hospital in the basement conference center of the Bristol Hotel on Thursday.
2020 Cape Times (Nexis) 2 June (E1 ed.) 4 A sixty-bed Covid-19 field hospital has opened in Khayelitsha to help manage hospital overflow for moderate cases.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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