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Noun: hospital ward
  1. Block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care
    "they put her in a 4-bed hospital ward";
    - ward

Derived forms: hospital wards

Type of: block

Part of: hospital, infirmary

Encyclopedia: Hospital ward