Definitions for sanatoria

sanatoria san·a·to·ri·um

Spelling: [san-uh-tawr-ee-uh m, -tohr-]
IPA: /ˌsæn əˈtɔr i əm, -ˈtoʊr-/

Sanatoria is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 403 anagrams from letters in sanatoria (aaainorst).

Definitions for sanatoria

noun

  1. a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
  2. sanitarium.

Origin of sanatoria

1830-40; New Latin, equivalent to Latin sanā(re) to heal + -tōrium -tory2

Examples for sanatoria

The middle zone of the Cameroon mountain has, however, a temperate climate and affords excellent sites for sanatoria.

All puerperal insanities should be treated in sanatoria or asylums and not at home.

In the neighbouring hills are sanatoria, like Jesu Maria, much favoured by the people of the plains who need a change.

Now our sanatoria are nearly all founded on some special principle of therapeutics.

(a) The Act of 1911 providing building grants for the establishment of sanatoria, dispensaries and other auxiliary institutions.

They are suitable for transformation into bungalows, tool-sheds, sanatoria and the like.

The prisons are their sanatoria, the workhouses their homes of rest, and the casual ward their temporary conveniences.

It should be said of her that she was very nervous, and had tried many kinds of sanatoria and systems of cure.

Word Value for sanatoria
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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