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sickbay

/ ˈsɪkˌbeɪ /

noun

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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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No one thinks to look for a doctor in sickbay?

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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.

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Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, was visionary in many ways: The Enterprise crew’s communicators presaged today’s smartphones, Bones’s sickbay mirrored in modern medical scanners, and, well, we’re still working on that transporter.

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The men slept on mattresses on the floor of the bunker’s sickbay.

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Annabeth and he crept downstairs to the second deck, which Percy hadn’t explored except for sickbay.

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