The adverse effects of a prolonged stay in hospital, such as developmental retardation in children.
住院病（长期住院对病人的不利影响，例如孩子发育迟缓）
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.
Definition of hospitalism in US English:
hospitalism
nounˈhäspədəˌlizəm
The adverse effects of a prolonged stay in hospital, such as developmental retardation in children.
住院病（长期住院对病人的不利影响，例如孩子发育迟缓）
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.
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.
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.