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sickbay

noun

  1. Jump to navigation Jump to search A place used as a hospital on board a ship, on a spaceship
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noun

Etymology: From sick + bay.

  1. A place used as a hospital on board a ship, or on a spaceship (in science fiction).
  2. A room or area for the treatment of the sick or injured in a school.

    It was the piano lesson again—an orange-tiled floor, one high window, a new upright in a bare room close to the sickbay,