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Definition of "spital" []

  • Archaic A hospital, especially one for patients with contagious diseases. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "spital" in a sentence
  • "“I see people in my clinic who can barely pronounce the word,” says Sabrina Kendrick, director of the STD screening clinic at John H. Stroger Jr. (formerly Cook County) H.spital in Chicago."
  • "It was the good fortune of this ill office worker with the mysterious lung problem to see Dr. Robert H. Rubin, an infectious disease specialist at the Massachusetts General H.spital, at the time the director of the hospital's clinical investigation program."
  • "At John H. Stroger Jr. H.spital -- formerly known as Cook County H.spital -- 56% of patients don't have any insurance when they are admitted, says John Cookinham, the hospital's chief financial officer."
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