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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. pest house: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. pest-house: Wordnik
  3. pest house: Dictionary.com
  4. Pest House (disambiguation), Pest House, Pest house, The Pest House: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. pest house: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pest house, Pest House: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Pest House)

noun:  A pest house, plague house, pesthouse or fever shed was a type of building used for persons afflicted with communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera, smallpox or typhus.
noun:  The Ephraim Potter House, a historic house and former pest house at 158 Fairhaven Road in Concord, Massachusetts, is also known as the Pest House, a name used in the 18th century to describe a building in which to quarantine those afflicted with communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera, or smallpox.
noun:  A pest house was a type of building in which to quarantine those afflicted with communicable diseases.
noun:  The Pest House in Stillwater Township, Minnesota, United States, is a former quarantine facility used by the city of Stillwater circa 1872 to 1910.


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