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What does hospitalize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hospitalize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To send to hospital; to admit (a person) to hospital.
  2. (medicine) To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
  3. (of an injury, illness, event, or person) To cause (a person) to require hospitalization.
    1. Said of an injury or illness.
    2. Said of an assailant or other person.
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She concluded Aliah was suicidal but did not hospitalize her, referring her instead to an emergency clinic for further evaluation.
That should put enough stress on his nervous system to hospitalize him, at least.
There is a shift away from the large iliac crest grafts where we hospitalize the patient.
It's things that happen to people, things that hospitalize people, and so on.
Then people have to wait to see the emergency doctor and at this time only, it makes the decision to hospitalize or not the person.
The decision to hospitalize a prisoner with AIDS or other HIV-related diseases must be made on medical grounds by health personnel.

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