hospitalism (English, noun)
expansion: hospitalism (uncountable)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: wasting away of infants in long-term institutional care, caused by lack of contact with caregivers
tags: uncountable
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A spoiled or degenerate condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.
tags: dated
uncountable
Forms: