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sick nurse

sick nurse is the alternative form of sicknurse.

Meaning of sicknurse

Noun

sicknurse (plural sicknurses)

  1. A nurse; a person employed to take care of somebody who is unwell.
    • Working as a sicknurse may have provided women with a supplementary income, and many women may have taken on the work since it required no recognised training.2004, Susan Broomhall, Women's Medical Work in Early Modern France, page 82

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Forms of sick nurse

pluralsick nurses

Questions about sick nurse

What is sick nurse the alternative form of?
Sick nurse is the alternative form of sicknurse.

Words near sick nurse in the dictionary

  1. sick man of East Asia
  2. sick man of Europe
  3. sick men
  4. sick note
  5. sick notes
  6. sick nurse
  7. sick nurses
  8. sick office syndrome
  9. sick parade
  10. sick parades
  11. sick pay

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