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Caregiver vs Hospitalism - What's the difference?

caregiver | hospitalism |

As nouns the difference between caregiver and hospitalism

is that caregiver is while hospitalism is (psychology) wasting away of infants in long-term institutional care, caused by lack of contact with caregivers.

caregiver

English

Noun

(en noun)

    • hospitalism

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia hospitalism) (-)
  • (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.
    • (Webster 1913)