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Webster 1913 Edition
Hospitalism
Hos′pi-tal-ism
,Noun.
(Med.)
A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.
Definition 2024
hospitalism
hospitalism
English
Noun
hospitalism (uncountable)
- (psychology) wasting away of infants in long-term institutional care, caused by lack of contact with caregivers
- (medicine, dated) A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.