hospitalism
English
noun
Definitions
- (psychology) waste wasting away of infants in long-term institutional care, caused by lack of contact with caregivers
- (medicine) A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.
Etymology
Suffix from English hospital.
Origin
English
hospital
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antihospital English
- general hospital English
- hospicentric English
- hospital English
- hospital corpsman English
- hospitalise English
- hospitalist English
- hospitalization English
- hospitalize English
- hospitaller English
- interhospital English
- intrahospital English
- multihospital English
- nonhospital English
- posthospital English
- prehospital English
- superhospital English
- hospital Middle English
- hospital Old French
- hospital Cebuano
- ospital Cebuano
- hospital Malay
- hospitali Swahili
- isibhedlela Zulu
- হাসপাতাল Bengali
- aujpitōļ Marshallese
- asibiti Hausa
- chipatara Shona
- hosipitari Shona
- thibitarĩ Kikuyu, Gikuyu
- اسپتال Baluchi
- hospitol Pijin
- اسپتال Sindhi