Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
HOSPITALIZATION
hospitalization, hospitalisation, hospital care
(noun) placing in medical care in a hospital
hospitalization
(noun) the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital; “he hoped to avoid the expense of hospitalization”
hospitalization
(noun) a period of time when you are confined to a hospital; “now they try to shorten the patient’s hospitalization”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
hospitalization (countable and uncountable, plural hospitalizations)
The hospitalizing of a patient, the condition of being hospitalized, or the period a patient stays in hospital.
Insurance that pays a patient's expenses.
Source: Wiktionary
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REPLACEMENT
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
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