Associations to the word «Hospitalization»

Wiktionary

HOSPITALIZATION, noun. The hospitalizing of a patient, the condition of being hospitalized, or the period a patient stays in hospital.
HOSPITALIZATION, noun. Insurance that pays a patient's expenses.

Dictionary definition

HOSPITALIZATION, noun. A period of time when you are confined to a hospital; "now they try to shorten the patient's hospitalization".
HOSPITALIZATION, noun. The condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital; "he hoped to avoid the expense of hospitalization".
HOSPITALIZATION, noun. Insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense.
HOSPITALIZATION, noun. Placing in medical care in a hospital.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats