後こう送そう病びょう院いん

noun

evacuation hospital; clearing hospital

Military medical term for a hospital that receives and treats patients evacuated from the front or from other facilities, often for stabilization before further transfer.

• 負ふ傷しょう兵へいは後こう送そう病びょう院いんに運はこばれた。

  The wounded soldiers were taken to the evacuation hospital.

• 後こう送そう病びょう院いんでは、患かん者じゃを最さい前ぜん線せんから受うけ入いれ、必ひつ要ように応おうじてさらに後こう方ほうの病びょう院いんへ移い送そうする。

  At the clearing hospital, patients are received from the front lines and, if necessary, transferred to hospitals further to the rear.