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Vitiated vs Hospitalism - What's the difference?

vitiated | hospitalism |

As a verb vitiated

is (vitiate).

As a noun hospitalism is

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

vitiated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (vitiate)
  • References

    * Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (G & C. Merriam Co., 1828), ARTFL version at

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    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)