hospice

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  1. noun A shelter or lodging for travelers, pilgrims, foundlings, or the destitute, especially one maintained by a monastic order.
  2. noun A program that provides palliative care and attends to the emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill patients at an inpatient facility or at the patient's home.

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  • The journey did not take long, for the hospice was built close to the poor quarter, and Kells followed as Klay carried her inside the white-walled building. —  David A
  • But she is determined to go through with it to help raise vital funds for the hospice, which is already struggling to meet its running costs as a result of the credit crunch. —  News round-up
  • Unlike hospice which is for the terminally ill (usually defined as having a life expectancy of six months or less), palliative care is available to anyone with a serious illness, without regard to life expectancy or to treatment status. —  theithacajournal.com -
  • AIG in "hospice" - $62 billion loss in 3 months after receiving $150 billion taxpayer bailout —  axisoflogic.com
  • Staff at the hospice are a lifeline for patients like 44-year-old Sandra Lee, who turned to them after she was diagnosed with cancer in 2007. —  mirror.co.uk - Home
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French, from Old French, from Latin hospitium, hospitality, from hospes, hospit-, host; see ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French hospice = Spanish Portuguese hospicio =Italian ospizio, from Latin hospitium, hospitality, a lodging, an inn, from hospes(hospit-), a host, a guest: see host.
 

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