单词 | convalescent home |
释义 | convalescent home From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishconvalescent homeˌconvaˈlescent ˌhome (also convalescent hospital) noun [countable]a place where people stay when they need care from doctors and nurses, but are not sick enough to be in a hospital → nursing homeExamples from the Corpusconvalescent home• They may therefore benefit from a period in a convalescent home if this can be arranged.• Therefore, you must arrange with the hospital for a place in a convalescent home for the post-operative phase.• I was told I should go to a convalescent home to complete my recovery.• She had gone to a convalescent home in Bournemouth.• She also helped set up a convalescent home for patients from the East End after the cholera epidemic of 1867.• Crawley should be out of the convalescent home shortly and he could carry her downstairs. |
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