hospitalization

Noun

• placing in medical care in a hospital

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

• the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital
  • he hoped to avoid the expense of hospitalization
    

• a period of time when you are confined to a hospital
  • now they try to shorten the patient's hospitalization
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  hospitalisation , hospital care , hospitalization insurance