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Hospitalization

//ˌhɒspɪtəlaɪˈzeɪʃn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The hospitalizing of a patient, the condition of being hospitalized, or the period a patient stays in hospital. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    placing in medical care in a hospital wordnet
  3. 3
    Insurance that pays a patient's expenses. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense wordnet
  5. 5
    the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital wordnet
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  1. 6
    a period of time when you are confined to a hospital wordnet

Etymology

From hospitalize + -ation. Piecewise doublet of hotelization.

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