| 单词 | sick call |
| 释义 | > as lemmassick call sick call n. (a) (originally and chiefly Military), a call sounded to summon those reporting sick to a place of treatment; an assembly for medical treatment; (b) a visit made to a sick person; (c) a summons to visit a sick person. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > [noun] > call summoning for treatment sick call1836 society > leisure > social event > visit > [noun] > to sick or distressed persons visit1709 sick call1976 society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > [noun] > of sick > summons to sick call1978 1836 J. Hildreth Dragoon Campaigns Rocky Mts. 114 Every morning..‘sick call’ blows. 1850 E. Price (title) Sick calls: from the diary of a missionary priest. 1883 M. E. Herbert tr. Life St. John Baptist de Rossi iii. iv. 147 The servants never again dared to fail to warn him of any sick call. 1908 E. C. Booth Cliff End v. 37 You can be almost sure of catching me,..without there be sick calls. 1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms Sick Call, a signal on the bugle or drum and fife for the formation of the sick squads. 1930 F. A. Pottle Stretchers 31 Sick call is blown before the dispensary door. 1931 P. J. Joyce John Healy ii. 37 That imperious, unmistakable sick-call knock. 1945 Yank 13 July 19/2 A punitive measure to discourage falling out for sick call. 1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 27 June 1- b/4 There is a daily sick call by a local doctor for the inmates. 1977 New Yorker 24 Oct. 106/2 A third way for an inmate to see a doctor is to go to sick call, which is held each weekday morning at Green Haven on the first floor of the Hospital-Segregation Building. 1978 J. Carroll Mortal Friends iv. ii. 389 I was a young priest at the time, see, and I get this sick-call. < as lemmas |
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