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Bimaristan

A bimaristan (Persian: بيمارستان, romanized: bīmārestān; Arabic: بِيْمَارِسْتَان, romanized: bīmāristān), or simply maristan, known in Arabic as dar al-shifa ("house of healing"; darüşşifa in Turkish), is a hospital in the historic Islamic world.

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• ▸Hadrosauridae
• ▸Badami cave temples
• ▸2011 Germany E. coli O104:H4 outbreak

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