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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) (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 [synonym: {hospitalization insurance}, {hospitalization}]
4: placing in medical care in a hospital [synonym:
{hospitalization}, {hospitalisation}, {hospital care}]