Definition of hospitalism in English:
hospitalism
noun ˈhɒspɪt(ə)lɪz(ə)mˈhäspədəˌlizəm
mass nounThe adverse effects of a prolonged stay in hospital, such as developmental retardation in children.
Example sentencesExamples
- I personally value psychology's contribution to reducing the iatrogenic pediatric disease of ‘hospitalism’ that was rampant earlier in this century in homes for abandoned and orphaned children.
- However, hospitalism is not necessarily the destiny of all children brought up without their mothers.
- In the Neonatal Departments of the Khmelnytsky City Children's Hospital early mental stimulation of orphans, designed to combat hospitalism, is carried out.
- This debate today could well be called a debate on hospitalism, the name applied in the mid-19th century to often fatal post-operative infection.