Definitions
a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill
Word origin
Borrowed from French hospice, from Old French hospise, from Latin hospitium (“hospitality, an inn”). Doublet of hospitium.
Used in a sentence
“Thus, the introduction of hospice services marked a new beginning, not only for the care of the dying, but also for the practice of medicine as a whole.”
“Medicare reimbursement of hospice care is likely to be affected by the apparent reluctance of hospices to participate in the Medicare program.”
“A small number of hospices were opened in the US in the 1890s, but these institutions differed from the hospices that came into being in the second part of the twentieth century in the following ways.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“End-of-life care setting”7 letters
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