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BM

an abbreviation for bowel movement used as an informal euphemism especially in hospitals

Bayman

In the United States navy a sick bay nurse now officially designated as hospital apprentice

inmate

inmate : a person confined in an institution (as a prison or hospital)

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imply

esp. on legal or equitable grounds [in ordinary circumstances…the law would that it was the duty of the hospital to use due care "Haase v. Starnes, 915 S.W.2d 675 (1996)"] 2 : to make known indirectly

guilty but mentally ill

in which the defendant is considered as if having been found guilty but is committed to a mental hospital rather than imprisoned if an examination shows a need for psychiatric treatment compare not guilty by reason of

charity

or other purposes beneficial to the public (as maintaining a public building) ;also : an institution (as a hospital or school) or organization founded by such a gift compare private foundation NOTE: Statutory definitions of what institutions

Lying in

The state attending and consequent to childbirth confinement as a lying in hospital

maternity ward

The section of a hospital devoted to assisting women during childbirth and caring for them and their newborn infants until they are released

Eleemosynary corporations

perpetual distribution of the free alms or bounty of the founder of them. Of this kind are all hospitals for the maintenance of the poor, sick, and impotent, and all colleges, both in our universities and out

Any other public purpose

Any other public purpose, Acquisition of sites for the building of hospitals or educational institutions by private benefactors will be a public purpose, though it will not strictly be a

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