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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or relating to a hospital.
  2. adj. Of or being a secondary disorder associated with being treated in a hospital but unrelated to the patient's primary condition: a nosocomial infection.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Relating to a hospital: as, a nosocomial fever. See fever.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. of, relating to, happening in a hospital
  2. adj. of a disease or infection contracted in a hospital, or arising from hospital treatment

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to a hospital.
  2. adj. Acquired in a hospital.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. taking place or originating in a hospital

Etymologies

  1. From New Latin nosocomi ("hospital"), from Ancient Greek νοσοκομείον (nosokomeion, "hospital"), from νόσος (nosos, "disease, illness") + κομέω (komēo, "to take care of"). (Wiktionary)
  2. From Late Latin nosocomi(um), hospital (ultimately from Greek nosos, disease + komein, to take care of) + -al. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Hospital-acquired infections are called nosocomial infections.”

    Simon & Schuster: You Raising Your Child

  • “Diarrhea: need for cultures in nosocomial diarrhea”

    Edupalm.org/Mari Stoddard/Inforetriever Update

  • “Diarrhea - need for cultures in nosocomial diarrhea”

    Archive 2002-05-01

  • “I realized I should have specified that the Community Acquired MRSA is actually more virulent than the ones you can get from hospitals which are classified as nosocomial infections.”

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  • “Together, the two hospital-acquired infections - also called nosocomial infections - account for about one-third of the 1.7 million infections US patients pick up every year while in hospital, the study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows.”

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories

  • “Together, the two hospital-acquired infections -- also called nosocomial infections -- account for about one-third of the 1.7 million infections US patients pick up every year while in hospital, the study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows.”

    Turkish Press

  • “Together, the two hospital-acquired infections - also called nosocomial infections - account for about one-third of the 1.7 million infections US patients pick up every year while in hospital, the study published in the”

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories

  • “Hospital acquired infections (HAIs), also called nosocomial infections to better describe the range of places they can occur, have become a major health concern.”

    GEN News Highlights

  • “If so, they are called nosocomial infections, and such infections are not limited to resistant strains of bacteria.”

    Emaxhealth

  • “Staff who fail to properly wash their hands are often to blame for these so-called nosocomial infections.”

    Reuters: Top News

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  • ambyellen so many nosocomial shows on tv these days... May 23, 2009

  • reesetee Get well soon, s! ;-) Mar 26, 2009

  • sionnach I was just visiting this page, and - next thing you know - I found myself in the ICU, with an IV drip, being poked at by amateurish medical students with clipboards. Mar 26, 2009

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