sickbay

British

/ ˈsɪkˌbeɪ /

noun

a room or area for the treatment of the sick or injured, as on board a ship or at a boarding school

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No one thinks to look for a doctor in sickbay?

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2023

Voigt was in sickbay when he was awarded the Purple Heart, just as the Korean War cease-fire was about to be signed in 1953.

From Fox News • Mar. 2, 2019

The ironic result is an anti-irony artist with a global-sized dream being represented through sickbay claustrophobia.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2017

Steward Novikoff-Priboy's battle-station on the Oryol was in the sickbay.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had to get Percy to sickbay, and if the storm kept raging above them there wouldn’t be any sickbay to get him to.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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