| 释义 |
hospitalize, v.|ˈhɒspɪtəlaɪz|
[f. hospital n. + -ize.]
trans. To place or accommodate in a hospital.
Freq. commented on as an unhappy formation.
1901Daily Chron. 10 Sept. 6/2 The disease was spreading rapidly owing to the people refusing to hospitalise first cases. 1904Ibid. 28 Oct. 8/3 The pauper who is hospitalised in an English casual ward. 1946Nature 3 Aug. 170/1 Cases hospitalized in the Carmichael Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Calcutta. 1955Sci. News Let. 15 Jan. 39/3 Surgery..was performed on 70% of the hospitalized children. 1961Observer 19 Nov. 29/6 On the second day after the mutiny the ship's doctor insisted that the lives of a passenger and a wounded member of the crew depended on their being hospitalised. 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 239 The more the state undertakes to protect a man from illness..the more it has the right to sacrifice him..to hospitalize his children.
Hence ˌhospitaliˈzation, confinement to, or accommodation in, a hospital.
1909in Webster. 1918A. Woollcott Let. 12 Jan. (1946) 40 My present brief hospitalization is traceable to eye-strain. 1932Nation 25 May 604 The activities of the Legion..began with a demand for pensions and hospitalization for those disabled in war service. 1937R. S. Morton Woman Surgeon vi. 70 The systematic hospitalization of the sick poor furnished a wealth of clinical material. 1967Spectator 28 July 114/1 Private hospitalisation and medicine has been increased in price by this Government so that, while the rich people can cope, the moderately well off can no longer do so. 1971Cowdry & Steinberg Care of Geriatric Patient (ed. 4) xxvii. 352/1 Application of new scientific knowledge to clinical medicine has profoundly affected the hospitalization requirements of elderly patients. |