1. (

• hospitalization

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

2. (

• hospitalization

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

3. (

• hospitalization_insurance ,
• hospitalization

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

4. (

• hospitalization ,
• hospitalisation ,
• hospital_care

) placing in medical care in a hospital ;