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Definition of hospitalism:

(n) : (psychology) wasting away of infants in long-term institutional care, caused by lack of contact with caregivers
(n) : (medicine, dated) 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.

Definition of hospitalism:

(n) : (psychology) wasting away of infants in long-term institutional care, caused by lack of contact with caregivers
(n) : (medicine, dated) 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.

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