dispensarynoun [ C ]
uk/dɪˈspen.sər.i/us/dɪˈspen.sɚ.i/a place where medicines are prepared and given out, often in a hospital
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Medical places & organizations
- A & E
- asylum
- detoxification centre
- ear, nose, and throat
- emergency room
- ENT
- er
- Harley Street
- health maintenance organization
- intensive care
- lunatic asylum
- madhouse
- Medicare
- mental hospital
- operating room
- outpatients
- sanitarium
- surgery
- the funny farm
- theatre
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Examples from literature
- Behind the dispensary was a small passage, whence the stairs mounted, and a door led to the kitchen.
- Connected with the hospital is a dispensary from which medical advice and medicines are given to the poor.
- It is a very usual practice for parents to take children suffering from scarlet fever, measles, etc., to a public dispensary, in order to obtain advice and medicines.
- On another occasion the same officer's wife was ill, and his little son, having fever, was sent daily to the dispensary for medicine in charge of a maid.
- On the sides were five state rooms, besides a pantry for the steward, and a dispensary for the surgeon.