Hospitalization

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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


          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hospitalization
       n 1: 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}]