When Does Sanitarium Mean?

noun, plural san·i·tar·i·ums, san·i·tar·i·a [san-i-tair-ee-uh]. an institution for the preservation or recovery of health, especially for convalescence; health resort. Also sanatorium.

What exactly is a sanitarium?

A sanatorium (also spelled sanitarium or sanitorium) is a medical facility for long-term illness, most typically associated with the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century before the discovery of antibiotics.

What's the difference between sanatorium and asylum?

As nouns the difference between sanatorium and asylum

is that sanatorium is an institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence while asylum is a place of safety.