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• n  a room to which a sick person is confined

• Shortly a man left the sickroom.
• When Barbara La Marr was dying, she summoned Paul Bern to her sickroom.
• He was, almost literally, raised in the family sickroom, in a dreadful atmosphere of whispers, enforced silences, vomit, snot and the cold stink of carbolic acid.

News & Articles

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• Two arrested after meth lab fumes sicken Pelham police officers, K-9
  Two adults have been charged after fumes from a meth lab sickened four Pelham police officers and a K-9 officer. Jacob Kenneth Mykicz, 25, of Homewood and Kristie Marie Gilley, 36, of Hanceville, were
  Sept. 11, 2013 - Alabama's 13
• Oyster beds in Duxbury, Kingston and Plymouth to stay closed for weeks
  Forty commercial oyster beds in Duxbury, Kingston and Plymouth will remain closed for at least three more weeks due to a bacterium outbreak that sickened three people.
  Sept. 10, 2013 - Kingston Reporter
• Texans urged to get whooping cough vaccine
  Texas health officials are recommending that state residents make sure they're vaccinated against pertussis, a sometimes fatal disease that is on track to sicken more Texans this year than at any time in decades.
  Sept. 6, 2013 - CNN

Quotes

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• Sigmund Freud in Telegraph.co.uk
  At last the door of the sickroom opens,Freud concluded. "The unbeliever has not been converted - but the pastor goes away fully insured."