What's the difference between homesick and hospital?

Homesick


Definition:

  • (a.) Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I think I'm going to be a little bit homesick for it actually," the 23-year-old said.
  • (2) Ilya Zhegulyov, a Russian journalist with Forbes, said Berezovsky had shown signs of his fragile mental state and homesickness in an interview the day before his death.
  • (3) Homesick, sore, and 1,000 miles away from his family, Li cried himself to sleep at night.
  • (4) These subjects had higher levels of psychological disturbance and cognitive failure than non-homesick subjects.
  • (5) In my first year it all came crashing down – the homesickness hit me, the daily practicalities of living in a new place and making friends all seemed so hard.
  • (6) One area that produced significant differences between the two groups was the 'feeling of homesickness', which produced greater distress among overseas students.
  • (7) I always get so scared before I go and film a movie because I know I'm going to   get homesick."
  • (8) Although there were no differences between resident and home-based students in this respect, those who reported homesickness were distinguished from the remainder in terms of higher levels of psychological disturbance and cognitive failure following the transition to university.
  • (9) Camp nurses are in a unique position to assist in the study of homesickness because they are living the situation.
  • (10) In 1947 she succumbed to her parents' pressure to join them in Canada and spent three stormy years there, homesick not for people but for London.
  • (11) However, friends of Berezovksy in the UK were skeptical about the extent of his homesickness and expressed doubts over the authenticity of the Forbes interview.
  • (12) Psychopathology of intense homesickness, prejudices and other factors which prevent from adequate integration in a new environmental setting were delineated as well as prophylactic-psychosocial and therapeutic procedures.
  • (13) In my first year, I went home every two months and at Christmas for the whole month, because I was homesick and didn’t have many friends.
  • (14) Jetlagged and homesick, I was wary of this hipsterish-looking film with its Instagrammy filters and moustaches.
  • (15) But he likes to attribute his return at least as much to homesickness as to pragmatism.
  • (16) I once read a science-fiction story in which astronauts voyaging to a distant star were waxing homesick: "Just to think that it's springtime back on Earth!"
  • (17) Self-reports of homesickness and anxiety were higher in the experimental group 2-3 months after writing.
  • (18) There were no sex differences in homesickness reporting.
  • (19) So each autumn Sedikides and Wildschut are happily presented with a new cohort of the homesick and the displaced to help them with their research.
  • (20) Mannuel Ferreira Thinking about the queues at South African elections makes me homesick .

Hospital


Definition:

  • (n.) A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn.
  • (n.) A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for.
  • (a.) Hospitable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
  • (2) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
  • (3) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (4) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
  • (5) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
  • (6) No significant change occurred in the bacterial population of our hospital unit during the period of the study (more than 3 years).
  • (7) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
  • (8) The difference in BP between a hospital casual reading and the mean 24 hour ambulatory reading was reduced only by atenolol.
  • (9) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
  • (10) Twelve patients with South American mococutaneous leishmaniasis who attended the Hospital Amazonico in Peru between February and September 1974 were treated with amphotericin B.
  • (11) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
  • (12) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
  • (13) Data collection at the old hospital for comparison, however, was not always reliable.
  • (14) Since 1979, patients started on long-term lithium treatment at the Psychiatric Hospital in Risskov have been followed systematically with recording of clinical and laboratory variables before the start of treatment, after 6 and 12 months of treatment, and thereafter at yearly intervals.
  • (15) In a random sample of 1,000 neonates from a Delhi Hospital the incidence of jaundice was 53% and of hyperbilirubinaemia (HB) 6%.
  • (16) The hospital mortality was 2.4% in group A and 2.6% in group B.
  • (17) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
  • (18) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
  • (19) The vulvar white keratotic lesions which have been subjected to histological examination in Himeji National Hospital (1973-1987) included 13 cases in benign dermatoses, 4 cases in vulvar epithelial hyperplasia, 3 cases in lichen sclerosus, and 3 cases in lichen sclerosus with foci of epithelial hyperplasia.
  • (20) None of the children in the study showed clinical symptoms of acquired subglottic stenosis before discharge from hospital, and none has been readmitted for this condition subsequently.

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