"hospitalizations" in the noun sense
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
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