sanitarium

san·i·tar·i·um

noun

The definition of a sanitarium is a special health care facility where people are treated for chronic disease or where people are able to recover from a long illness.

When people had polio and had to stay in a special hospital for a long time to get better, the special hospital they were sent to was an example of a sanitarium.

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sanitarium

noun

pl. -·i·ums or -·ia

a quiet resort, as in the mountains, where people go to rest and regain health
an institution for the care of invalids or convalescents, esp. one making use of local natural resources, as mineral springs, or one treating a specific disease, as tuberculosis

Origin of sanitarium

Modern Latin from Classical Latin sanitas, health from sanus, healthy

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sanitarium

noun

pl. san·i·tar·i·ums, or san·i·tar·i·a

See sanatorium.

Origin of sanitarium

New Latin sānitārium from Latin sānitās health ; see sanity .

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