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Hospitalized vs Admission - What's the difference?

hospitalized | admission |

As a verb hospitalized

is (hospitalize).

As a noun admission is

the act or practice of admitting.

hospitalized

English

Verb

(head)
  • (hospitalize)

  • hospitalize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (UK spelling) hospitalise

    Verb

    (hospitaliz)
  • To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital.
  • (medicine, archaic) To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
  • To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.
  • #
  • #* 1980 , Philip José Farmer, The Magic Labyrinth , Tor (2010), ISBN 978-0-7653-2655-3, page 129:
  • Shortly after World War I started, a painful arthritis in his knees hospitalized him.
  • #* 1996 , “The Life, the Survival and the Triumph of Franz Gabl of St. Anton”, in Skiing Heritage: Journal of the International Skiing History Association , Volume 8, Number 2 (Spring/Summer 1996), ISSN 1082-2895, page 38:
  • He fought on the ever-retreating front until July, 1943, without injury but then took a bullet in his helmet, his first wound, which hospitalized' him for four weeks. Hospitalized again, he was later assigned to a supply unit until again ' hospitalized by a deep infection behind his knee.
  • #* 2005 , Timothy O’Grady, On Golf: The Game, the Players, and a Personal History of Obsession , St. Martin’s Press (2006), ISBN 978-0-312-33006-4, page 199:
  • My father had begun his long, slow decline long before that, but subsequently, on each of the anniversaries of her death, he had suffered increasingly debilitating crises that had hospitalized him and left him still more frail than before.
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  • #* 1999 February 24, "Alan Earle" (username), " Re: Asinine excuse for breeding...", in alt.support.childfree, Usenet:
  • For example, just this month in Los Angeles a Jewish school principal was beaten and hospitalized by angry Hispanics who were upset because the mostly-Latino school their kids went to didn't also have a Hispanic principal.
  • #* 2001 , Richard L. Curwin and Allen N. Mendler, Discipline with Dignity , Merrill, ISBN 0130930598, page 198:
  • One teacher in a Rochester, NY, school was hospitalized by an angry parent who came to school and attacked the teacher.
  • #* 2007 September 3, "john p" (username), " Re: I Finally Watched September Dawn", in alt.religion.mormon, Usenet:
  • My step-brother, on his mission, was hospitalized by an angry inactive mormon.
  • Derived terms

    * hospitalization

    admission

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or practice of admitting.
  • * 2012 , Caroline Davies, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announce they are expecting first baby'' (in ''The Guardian , 3 December 2012)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/03/duke-and-duchess-of-cambridge-expecting-baby?intcmp=122]
  • The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have ended months of intense speculation by announcing they are expecting their first child, but were forced to share their news earlier than hoped because of the Duchess's admission to hospital on Monday.
  • Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
  • The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgment; concession.
  • (legal) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
  • A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence
  • Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
  • The cost or fee associated with attendance or entry.
  • There is no way he has seen that show, the admission is more than he makes in a week.

    Synonyms

    * admittance, concession, acknowledgment, concurrence, allowance

    See also

    * (wikipedia "admission")