hospitalization

English

Alternative forms

• hospitalisation

Etymology

hospital +‎ -ization

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

hospitalization (countable and uncountable, plural hospitalizations)

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.

Derived terms

• posthospitalization
• prehospitalization
• rehospitalization

 

Translations

hospitalizing of a patient

• Catalan: hospitalització f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 住院 (zh) (zhùyuàn), 入院 (zh) (rùyuàn)

• Czech: hospitalizace (cs) f
• Finnish: sairaalahoito (fi)
• French: hospitalisation (fr) f
• German: Krankenhauseinweisung f, Aufnahme in das Krankenhaus f, Aufnahme in ein Krankenhaus f, Krankenhausaufenthalt m, Klinikaufenthalt m, Krankenhausaufnahme f, Hospitalisierung f, Hospitalisieren n, Hospitalisiertwerden n
• Greek: νοσηλεία (el) f (nosileía)
• Italian: ospedalizzazione (it)
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• Japanese: 入院 (ja) (にゅういん, nyūin)
• Korean: 입원 (ko) (ibwon) (入院 (ko))
• Polish: hospitalizacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: hospitalização (pt)
• Russian: госпитализа́ция (ru) f (gospitalizácija)
• Spanish: hospitalización
• Swedish: sjukhusvistelse (sv) c
• Ukrainian: госпіталіза́ція f (hospitalizácija)

insurance

• Finnish: sairauskuluvakuutus
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See also

• inpatient