HOSPITALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hospitalize mean? 

• HOSPITALIZE (verb)
  The verb HOSPITALIZE has 1 sense:

1. admit into a hospital

  Familiarity information: HOSPITALIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOSPITALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hospitalize    ... he / she / it hospitalizes   
Past simple: hospitalized   
Past participle: hospitalized   
-ing form: hospitalizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Admit into a hospital

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

hospitalise; hospitalize

Context example:

Mother had to be hospitalized because her blood pressure was too high

Hypernyms (to "hospitalize" is one way to...):

charge; commit; institutionalise; institutionalize; send (cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

hospital (a health facility where patients receive treatment)

hospital (a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care)

hospitalization (placing in medical care in a hospital)

hospitalization (the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital)

hospitalization (a period of time when you are confined to a hospital)

 Context examples 

A question about whether an individual has been hospitalized or treated for heart failure.

(Hospitalized or Treated for Heart Failure, NCI Thesaurus)

This is important because hospitalized children experience IV insertion as a very painful and stressful event, and they can have post-traumatic stress symptoms if their pain is not adequately controlled.

(Better IV Insertion Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers also found that new cases of AKI are increasing among hospitalized patients, likely due to an aging population and rising rates of sepsis, a potentially life-threatening blood infection that can cause AKI.

(Acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease each a risk of the other, NIH)

Though self-limited and with light symptoms, patients often show a more severe state: Some enter into a coma or must spend more time hospitalized.

(Zika virus found to harm adults’ memory and motor system, Agência Brasil/EBC)

The research involved determining the expression of clock genes in the blood of sepsis patients, and comparing it to that of patients who were not suffering sepsis but who were hospitalized in the same ICU (and, therefore, were under the same environmental conditions).

(New study sheds fresh light on the genetic mechanisms involved in sepsis, the leading cause of death in ICUs, University of Granada)