hospitalization
noun
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placing in medical care in a hospitalhospitalisationhospital care
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insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expensehospitalization insurance
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the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital“I had hoped to avoid the expense of hospitalization, but in the end I could not.”
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a period of time when you are confined to a hospital“now they try to shorten the patient's hospitalization”