hospitalization
1. a period of time when you are confined to a hospital - now they try to shorten the patient's hospitalization • Derivationally related forms: hospitalize • Hypernyms: time period, period of time, period 2. the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital - he hoped to avoid the expense of hospitalization • Derivationally related forms: hospitalize • Hypernyms: condition, status 3. insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense • Syn: hospitalization insurance • Hypernyms: health insurance 4. placing in medical care in a hospital • Syn: hospitalisation, hospital care • Derivationally related forms: hospitalise (for: hospitalisation), hospitalize • Hypernyms: medical care, medical aid
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