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The Collaborative International Dictionary
hospitalization

hospitalisation \hospitalisation\, hospitalization \hospitalization\n. medical care in a hospital; also, the period during which one receives care in a hospital.

Syn: hospital care.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hospitalization

1873, noun of action from hospitalize.

Wiktionary
hospitalization

alt. 1 The hospitalizing of a patient, the condition of being hospitalized, or the period a patient stays in hospital. 2 insurance that pays a patient's expenses. n. 1 The hospitalizing of a patient, the condition of being hospitalized, or the period a patient stays in hospital. 2 insurance that pays a patient's expenses.

WordNet
hospitalization
  1. n. a period of time when you are confined to a hospital; "now they try to shorten the patient's hospitalization"

  2. the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital; "he hoped to avoid the expense of hospitalization"

  3. insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense [syn: hospitalization insurance]

  4. placing in medical care in a hospital [syn: hospitalisation, hospital care]

Usage examples of "hospitalization".

An ecoterrorist group saw the opportunity his hospitalization presented and abducted him.

Nine in ten people with listeriosis will require hospitalization, and one in five will die.

It also involves long periods of hospitalization, lots of nursing, lots of involvement of nonmedical professionals in and out of the hospital.

Others would eventually suffer nervous breakdowns and undergo long periods of hospitalization.

Army, presented with acute alcohol intoxication, diffuse anxiety alternating with a depressionlike state, ftilminating anger, self-mutilating behavior, and an eightpound chart of his previous hospitalizations.

It was such a highly organized delusion that, despite my initial impulse to categorize it as paranoid, I made no attempt to recommend hospitalization.

Despite strong medication, her congestive heart disease had increased in severity to the point that Jason insisted on hospitalization.

If he cannot be made to recognize the implausibility of his fantasy, the impossibility of his delusory existence, hospitalization must be effected.

Army, presented with acute alcohol intoxication, diffuse anxiety alternating with a depressionlike state, fulminating anger, self-mutilating behavior, and an eightpound chart of his previous hospitalizations.

Next he checked International BioSciences Services, a computer database in America, But he found no references to basilisk bites, or hospitalization for lizard bites.

It says that the deal was consummated when the hospital board, under the leadership of Harold Traynor, finally agreed to CMV's demand to provide hospitalization for an unspecified monthly capitation fee, a method of cost control encouraged by the government and favored by HMO organizations.

Do you have hospitalization insurance under the Arakos Plan or do you have another type of insurance?

Therefore, anyone who tries to state or i MPly that talkin' like dis is easy or stupid is suin' an invitation to waltz with me which would best be withheld unless his or her hospitalization insurance is substantial, detailed, and paid up.

Therefore, anyone who tries to state or imply that talkin' like dis is easy or stupid is issuin' an invitation to waltz with me which would best be withheld unless his or her hospitalization insurance is substantial, detailed, and paid up.

When he was released, at the end of September 1992, the hospital notified Driver that, as during Damien’s other hospitalizations, his behavior while at the hospital appeared normal, though he “was cautioned about his behavior and how it might appear to others.