terminal ward

Perhaps they'd just been waiting for him to die; this was the terminal ward, after all.

Otherwise, the usually busy corridor was like a hospital's terminal ward.

People died every day on a terminal ward.

Deemed incurable, he had been brought to a terminal ward to suffer through the last of his time in this world.

Where it hadn't been damaged his skin, always pate, had the dirty-porcelain cast of the terminal ward.

Christmas in the Terminal Ward.

Nowhere is that point made clearer than in the six-hour "Near Death" (1989), which takes place in a terminal ward.

It's a terminal ward."

Walking the terminal wards, dispensing words, nods, emphatic looks, strategic silences - the meager kindnesses endowed by my training.

Despite Brad's objections, Cosmo has him drugged, bound, gagged, and placed in a padded cell known as the "Terminal Ward".

The Kandor Emergency Corps, however, do travel to Earth with Superman to battle the diseases afflicting children in a terminal ward.

A year or so later I was subsisting in Mexico, where I was felled by a runaway bus and languished in the terminal ward of a charity hospital.

The climate bill, like hundreds of others less consequential, met its fate on the legislative terminal ward that is the United States Senate, where bleeding is still the treatment of choice.

Chapter 9 When they moved Deputy Captain Hans Horeger of the interstellar spaceship Nordvik to the adult terminal ward Murra went with him, though she could not have said why.

When he'd reported to Father Wycazik after a week at St. Joseph's, Brendan had been sent to another hospital, where he'd been given work on the terminal ward, a dreadful place with no children at all.

The novel tells the tale of Raven, son of Raven, who bargains with a necromancer, Koschei the Deathless, to save the life of his pretty young wife Wendy, who is in the terminal ward of the hospital.