nosocomial

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(HAIs) or "nosocomial" infections, which are the most common and deadly complication of hospitalization, and hospital medication errors and / or adverse drug events.

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

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  • D. Anderson Cancer Center product patents and associated technologies to address the problem of postsurgical nosocomial infection. —  MarketWatch.com - Top Stories
  • Downtown Montreal hospitals offer an especially fertile terrain for nosocomial —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • The difference is, while a low-quality shampoo has no other consequence than a bad hairdo, overdiluted cleaning products in hospitals are inactive and can lead to an increase in nosocomial infections such as —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Studies show that nearly one-third of nosocomial infections can be prevented by a property implemented infection control programme. —  Press Release
  • FDA has accepted for filing the New Drug Application for telavancin, a novel, bactericidal, once-daily injectable investigational antibiotic, for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia (also known as hospital-acquired pneumonia, or HAP) caused by Gram-positive bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. —  StreetInsider.com News Articles
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  1. From Late Latin nosocomi(um), hospital (ultimately from Greek nosos, disease + komein, to take care of) + -al.

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  1. from nosocome + -ial.
 

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/nɑsəˈkoʊmiəl/
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