Source : WordNet®

hospitalization
     n 1: a period of time when you are confined to a hospital; "now
          they try to shorten the patient's hospitalization"
     2: the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital;
        "he hoped to avoid the expense of hospitalization"
     3: insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital
        expense [syn: {hospitalization insurance}]
     4: placing in medical care in a hospital [syn: {hospitalisation},
         {hospital care}]