| 单词 | preventorium |
| 释义 | preventorium orig. and chiefly U.S.|priːvɛnˈtɔərɪəm|
[f. prevent v., after sanatorium.]
An institution where preventive care is given to people at risk from tuberculosis or other diseases.
1907W. Ewart in Jrnl. Balneol. & Climatol. XI. 155 The place for the ‘Prevention-Sanatorium’, or ‘Preventorium’, is the sea-coast. 1909Boston Even. Transcript 10 Nov. (heading) To fight tuberculosis New York will have $700,000 preventorium. 1929W. B. Tomson Prevention of Tuberculosis vii. 51 The preventorium stands out as the predominating instrument for prophylaxis and early treatment in childhood in America. 1930Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 21 Oct. 6/1 There are two preventoria in Aberdeen. 1936Dict. Amer. Biogr. XVIII. 130/1 In 1909 he [sc. Nathan Straus] established in his cottage in Lakewood, N.J., the pioneer tuberculosis preventorium for children. 1953H. R. Leavell in Leavell & Clark Textbk. Preventive Med. xvi. 497 ‘Preventoriums’, where children from families with tuberculosis were sent and cared for..did not prove useful enough to justify their cost, and they were not taken over by government. 1968Awake! 8 May 12/2 When I was eighteen, I had to spend some months in a preventorium. |
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