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hospicentric

hospicentric adjective: of a public health system: such that the majority of health problems are dealt with only at the hospital level when patients have already presented with serious complications.

Adjective

hospicentric (comparative more hospicentric, superlative most hospicentric)

  1. Of a public health system: such that the majority of health problems are dealt with only at the hospital level when patients have already presented with serious complications.

Forms of hospicentric

comparativemore hospicentric
superlativemost hospicentric

Origin of hospicentric

Blend of hospital + -centric.

Questions about hospicentric

What does hospicentric mean?
Hospicentric means of a public health system: such that the majority of health problems are dealt with only at the hospital level when patients have already presented with serious complications.
What part of speech is hospicentric?
Hospicentric is an adjective.

Words near hospicentric in the dictionary

  1. Hospel
  2. Hospental
  3. hospice
  4. hospicell
  5. hospicells
  6. hospicentric
  7. hospices
  8. hospitability
  9. hospitable
  10. hospitableness
  11. hospitably

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