hospitalization

(noun)

noun

1. a period of time when you are confined to a hospital

- now they try to shorten the patient's hospitalization

Definition categories: time, period

2. the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital

- he hoped to avoid the expense of hospitalization

Definition categories: state, condition, status

3. insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense

Definition categories: possession

4. placing in medical care in a hospital

Similar word(s): hospitalisation

Definition categories: act