Associations to the word «Sickbay»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

SICKBAY, noun. (nautical) a room for the treatment of the sick or injured (as on a ship).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats