Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to a hospital.
- 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
- Relating to a hospital: as, a nosocomial fever. See fever.
Wiktionary
- adj. of, relating to, happening in a hospital
- adj. contracted in a hospital, or arising from hospital treatment
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to a hospital.
- adj. Acquired in a hospital.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. taking place or originating in a hospital
Etymologies
- From Late Latin nosocomi(um), hospital (ultimately from Greek nosos, disease + komein, to take care of) + -al.
Examples
“Hospital-acquired infections are called nosocomial infections.”
“Diarrhea: need for cultures in nosocomial diarrhea”
“Diarrhea - need for cultures in nosocomial diarrhea”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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”
“Hospital acquired infections (HAIs), also called nosocomial infections to better describe the range of places they can occur, have become a major health concern.”
“If so, they are called nosocomial infections, and such infections are not limited to resistant strains of bacteria.”
“Staff who fail to properly wash their hands are often to blame for these so-called nosocomial infections.”
Lists
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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