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[san-uh-tawr-ee-uhm, -tohr-] / ˌsæn əˈtɔr i əm, -ˈtoʊr- /




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Later, a group of 31 were sent to “a sanatorium for children in Moscow.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023

The relentless 10-month war has prompted a local commander to transform a Soviet-era sanatorium into a recovery center for servicemen to treat both mental and physical ailments.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

This was because they had arrived from a sanatorium used to recuperate respiratory patients.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2022

It’s a new chapter for the facility that the Maryknoll Sisters began as a tuberculosis sanatorium in the 1920s for Japanese patients no other medical centers would treat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2022

I look like I’ve just emerged from a sanatorium and am about to lose a long battle with consumption.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

The old sanatoria in the Alps to which European TB patients lucky enough to have wealthy relatives might be sent focused on cleanliness, fresh air and sunlight, ample nutritious food and rest.

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2025

Crawford estimates that in 1925 alone the couple spent a third of their income on doctors, medicines, and stays in hospitals or sanatoria.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2022

The plaintiff in the case is John Pambrun, 77, a First Nations man who spent nearly six years of his childhood in Indian hospitals and sanatoria.

From The Guardian ● May 11, 2018

Rehab centers have the feel of pre-modern sanatoria.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2016

If the patients have money, which is very often the case, they prove profitable customers of the "nerve-specialist," and likewise of the endless chain of private sanatoria for nervous diseases.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel

Some of Kyiv's most vulnerable citizens – the elderly and women with young children – are being offered places in converted sanatoriums and rehabilitation centres in the city's forested outskirts.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

His tuberculosis, which before it killed him at age 40 led to rest “cures” at sanatoriums notable chiefly for their ineffectiveness?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

The southern town of Yalta was the prime holiday destination during Soviet times, with many sanatoriums built in and around it.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2023

"The Moscow region is already ready to accept 500 Belgorod residents at one of its sanatoriums," he said, adding that transport, food and accommodation would all be provided for free.

From Reuters ● Oct. 21, 2022

Possibly you know the type I am describing—the lady who, when planning where she will spend the summer, sends for catalogues from all the leading sanatoriums.

From Europe Revised by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb


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