cellblock ward | a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) |
maternity ward | a hospital ward that provides care for women during pregnancy and childbirth and for newborn infants |
ward hospital ward | block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care, they put her in a -bed ward |
ward | a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections |
machine politician ward-heeler political hack hack | a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends |
ward | a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another |
Beecher Henry Ward Beecher | United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (-) |
Browne Charles Farrar Browne Artemus Ward | United States writer of humorous tales of an itinerant showman (-) |
Howe Julia Ward Howe | United States feminist who was active in the women's suffrage movement (-) |
Ward Montgomery Ward Aaron Montgomery Ward | United States businessman who in established a successful mail-order business (-) |
Ward Mrs. Humphrey Ward Mary Augusta Arnold Ward | English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (-) |
Ward Barbara Ward Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth | English economist and conservationist (-) |
conservator-ward relation | the responsibility of a conservator to act in the best interests of the ward |
dementia dementedness | mental deterioration of organic or functional origin |
alcoholic dementia alcohol amnestic disorder Korsakoff's psychosis Korsakoff's syndrome Korsakov's psychosis Korsakov's syndrome polyneuritic psychosis | dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism, involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact |
presenile dementia | dementia with onset before the age of |
senile dementia senile psychosis | dementia of the aged, results from degeneration of the brain in the absence of cerebrovascular disease |
schizophrenia schizophrenic disorder schizophrenic psychosis dementia praecox | any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact |
guard ward | watch over or shield from danger or harm, protect, guard my possessions while I'm away |
ward off | avert, turn away, or repel, Ward off danger |
b debar forefend forfend obviate deflect avert head off stave off fend off avoid ward off a | prevent the occurrence of, prevent from happening, Let's avoid a confrontation, head off a confrontation, avert a strike |