lazarette

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lazarette

A small lazarette stands isolated on a green hillside.

Definition

Noun: 1. A hospital or isolation facility for people with infectious diseases, especially leprosy: A lazarette is a specialized medical institution designed to quarantine and treat individuals suffering from contagious illnesses, historically most associated with leprosy (Hansen's disease). 2. A storage compartment or area on a ship: In nautical contexts, a lazarette (also spelled lazaret) is a space, often in the stern, used for storing spare parts, sails, or other ship's stores.

Usage Examples
  • Noun (Medical Facility):
    • The island once housed a lazarette for leprosy patients, isolating them from the general population.
    • In the 19th century, many ports had a lazarette to quarantine sailors arriving with infectious diseases.
  • Noun (Nautical Storage):
    • The crew stored the extra ropes and fenders in the ship's lazarette.
    • He went down into the lazarette to check the emergency supplies.
Advanced Usage
  • Historical Context: The term is strongly associated with historical public health measures before modern antibiotics and treatments were available. Its use for a leprosarium is now largely archaic but appears in historical texts.
  • "Lazaretto": This is a common variant spelling, especially for the medical facility meaning.
Variants and Related Words
  • Lazaretto (noun): A direct synonym and variant spelling for both meanings (hospital or ship's storage).
  • Leprosarium (noun): A hospital specifically for the treatment of leprosy; a more modern clinical term for one function of a historical lazarette.
  • Quarantine station (noun phrase): A facility for detaining people or animals suspected of carrying a contagious disease.
Synonyms
  • Leprosarium (for the medical meaning).
  • Pesthouse (archaic term for a hospital for plague victims).
  • Sickbay (a ship's hospital, but not specifically for quarantine).
  • Locker, storage locker (for the nautical storage meaning).
Related Phrases
  • To be quarantined in a lazarette: Describes the historical action of isolating someone in such a facility.
    • Sailors showing symptoms of yellow fever were quarantined in the lazarette.
lazarette

A small lazarette stands isolated on a green hillside.

Noun
  1. hospital for persons with infectious diseases (especially leprosy)

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