Difference between Loony Bin and Sanatorium

LOONY BIN vs SANATORIUM: NOUN

Lunatic asylum
An institution for the confinement or treatment of insane persons, such as an insane asylum or the psychiatric ward of a hospital.
An institution for the mentally ill.
Pejorative terms for an insane asylum

An institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence
An establishment for the treatment of the sick; a resort for invalids. See sanitarium.
A hospital, usually a private hospital for the treatment of patients who are not beyond the hope of cure.
A place to which people go for the sake of health; a locality to which people resort to regain health; also, a house, hotel, or medical institution in such a locality, designed to accommodate invalids: specifically applied to military stations on the mountains or tablelands of tropical countries, with climates suited to the health of Europeans.
A resort for improvement or maintenance of health, especially for convalescents.
An institution for the treatment of chronic diseases or for medically supervised recuperation.
Pejorative terms for an insane asylum
A hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases

Wacko, Psycho, Nutjob, Nutcase, Insane asylum, Lunatic, Lunatic asylum, Funny house, Funny farm, Crazy house, Bedlam, Sanatorium, Madhouse, Booby hatch, Nuthouse

Hospital, Lunatic asylum, Insane asylum, Leprosarium, Infirmary, Sanitarium, Funny farm, Sanatarium, Crazy house, Funny house, Bedlam, Madhouse, Booby hatch, Loony bin, Nuthouse

Insane, Loony, Weirdo, Wacko, Psycho, Nutjob, Nutcase, Insane asylum, Lunatic, Lunatic asylum, Funny farm, Bedlam, Sanatorium, Booby hatch, Nuthouse

Almshouse, Penitentiary, Sickroom, Penal colony, Psychiatric, Hospital, Lunatic asylum, Insane asylum, Leprosarium, Infirmary, Funny farm, Bedlam, Booby hatch, Loony bin, Nuthouse

Flesh was going to the loony bin and psych wards, fighting police and fighting cases.
Bruce reports, Everyone leaves on the fourth of September, after which Judy and I check into the nearest loony bin.
The mobster recruits his deranged brother Loony Bin Jim and an army of assorted criminals from various gangs as hired muscle.
Say, that sounds like a real thing and not loony bin nonsense!
Leonard: Any place specific or just the Bozeman, Montana Loony Bin?

Are you ready to discover true horror inside the Blackwood Pines Sanatorium?.
TB Sanatorium: Petition to discuss salary and staffing; Hartford Steam Boiler Co.
Locating and Building Board of the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium for Negroes.
Victor Cullen, General Superintendent of the Maryland State Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
Milley is a nursing instructor at Niagara Peninsula Sanatorium, St.
Callahan at the head of Pokegama Sanatorium, Minnesota; Wm.
PULLEN, Madeline Louise Colville, The Sanatorium, Loop Street, Picter.
State Tubercular Sanatorium, Norton - 1940 Biennial Report by Oklahoma.
Arizona sanatorium and John decides to go with her.
Clara Eleanor Atkinson, Matron, Ochil Hills Sanatorium, Kinross.