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Maternity hospital   /mətˈərnɪti hˈɑspˌɪtəl/   Listen
Maternity hospital

noun
1.
A hospital that provides care for women during pregnancy and childbirth and for newborn infants.





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"Maternity hospital" Quotes from Famous Books



... go and twist him round your finger. Only, mind this: be as supple as silk; at every word take a double turn round him and make a knot. He is a man to fear scandal, and if he has given you a chance to put him in the pillory—in short, understand; threaten him with the ladies of the Maternity Hospital. Besides, he's ambitious. A man succeeds through his wife, and you are handsome and clever enough to make the fortune of a husband. Hey! the mischief! you could hold your own ...
— The Jealousies of a Country Town • Honore de Balzac
... backing from his rich women patients uptown, many of them childless and only too ready to respond to the appeals he made to them. And one Saturday evening at the house, while dining with Roger and Deborah, he told of an offer he had had from a wealthy banker's widow to build a maternity hospital. He talked hungrily of all it could do in co-operation with the school. He said nothing of the obvious fact that it would require his whole time, but Roger thought of that at once, and by the expression on Deborah's face he saw she ...
— His Family • Ernest Poole


Words linked to "Maternity hospital" :   infirmary, hospital


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