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Operating Room
Operating room Definition An operating room (OR), also called surgery center, is the unit of a hospital where surgical procedures are performed. Purpose An operating room may be designed and equipped to provide care to patients with a range of conditions, or it may be designed... Read more |
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solar
solar, soler. 1. Garret, loft, or Rood-loft.2. Private upper chamber on the first floor, often in a cross-wing, of a medieval house.3. Bay-window, almost the size of a small room, at the side of the high-table end of a medieval hall, or attached to a late-medieval withdrawing-room or... Read more |
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Recovery Room
Recovery room Definition The recovery room, also called a post-anesthesia care unit (PACU), is a space a patient is taken to after surgery to safely regain consciousness from anesthesia and receive appropriate post-operative care. Description Patients who have had... Read more |
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Hospital emergency services
EMERGENCY ROOM The hospital emergency department has become a very important access point for health care for elderly persons and this trend will likely continue. The emergency room serves as the site of hospital entry for many patients, with scheduled admissions largely restricted to elective... Read more |
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Green Room
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nook
nook. 1. Corner of a room, i.e. interior angle formed by the meeting of two walls.2. Piece taken out of an angle, e.g. where a reveal meets the exterior face of a wall and a reentrant angle is formed, giving two arrises instead of one.3. Part of the corner of a room beside a fireplace, often with... Read more |
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gallery
gallery. 1. Large internal passage, often a grand room on the upper floor of an Elizabethan or Jacobean house, called long gallery, extending the full length of a façade, and used to display pictures and tapestries, for recreation, and as a connecting corridor. Good examples exist at Hardwick... Read more |
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foyer
foyer. 1. Lobby or entrance-hall of a theatre or other public building. 2. Area outside the auditorium for the audience to meet, promenade, mingle, talk, etc. It acts as a sound-barrier between the exterior and the auditorium. 3. Any public area in a large public or civic building between the... Read more |
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conclave
conclave in the Roman Catholic Church, the assembly of cardinals for the election of a pope; the meeting place for such an assembly. The word is recorded from late Middle English (denoting a private room) and comes via French from Latin conclave ‘lockable room’, from con-... Read more |
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pendentive
pendentive in architecture, a constructive device permitting the placing of a circular dome over a square room or an elliptical dome over a rectangular room. The pendentives, which are triangular segments of a sphere, taper to points at the bottom and spread at the top to establish the continuous... Read more |
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