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field hospital

noun

, Military.

an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.

field hospital

a temporary hospital set up near a battlefield equipped to provide remedial surgery and post-operative care

First recorded in 1695–1705

The Caiman offers a range of option packages, from bristling-with-machine-guns, to monster-truck-field-hospital.

Finally, with no sign of a let up in the Russian shelling, he took the decision that the field hospital had to be evacuated.

Pope Francis told an interviewer last year that the church should be a, “field hospital after battle.”

Loubani and Greyson found themselves inside the Fateh Mosque, which had become an ad hoc sanctuary, field hospital and morgue.

Draper assisted his Lieutenant, the real Donald Draper, in building a field hospital during the Korean War.

Soon after he was shot down, he was carried to the field hospital, where he died and was buried the following day.

Twice used as a field hospital, it stood until 1950 when, in ruinous condition, it was dismantled.

She told the corporal in charge that she was attached to the Baron de Mlide's field hospital and must get to her work.

A large field hospital had been set up close to the banks of the stream at Taza.

Suddenly it began to drop bombs and, whether by design or otherwise, they exploded in the middle of a field hospital.

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