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The word "nosocomial" is derived from two Greek words: nosos, meaning "disease"; and komeion, meaning, "to take care of."
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Greeks, who call it [Greek: hiera nosos], the holy sickness.
The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914
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It is suggestive of a translation, perhaps of חָלִי, which seems to be used of moral disease in Hos.v. 13, and is there rendered by nosos.v. 59 Oʹ, Th. Why humas?
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For I must remark that pathological does not mean harmful; it does not indicate disease; disease in Greek is nosos, and it is nosology that is concerned with disease.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
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On the special attribution of epilepsy to daemoniacal influence illustrated by the name hiera nosos, see Hippocrates, De Morbo Sacro.
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Compare the Boeotian legend of the temple of Dionysos Aigobolos: -- [Greek: thyontes gar tô theô proêchthêsan pote hypo methês es hybrin, hôste kai tou Dionysou ton hierea apokteinousin; apokteinantas de autika epelabe nosos loimôdês; kai sphisin aphiketo hama ek Delphôn, tô Dionysô thyein paida hôraion; etesi de ou pollois hysteron ton theon phasin aiga hiereion hypallaxai sphisin anti tou paidos.]
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871
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Dános hoxe o noso pan de cada día, E perdoa-nos as nosas débedas, así como tamén perdoamos nós aos nosos debedores; E non nos deixes caer na tentación, mais livrai-nos do mal.
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One is μαλακια (malakia) and the other is νοσος (nosos).
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One is μαλακια (malakia) and the other is νοσος (nosos).
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(_affectio_) in general, not necessarily impairment of vital tissue; when that was involved there was nosos, disease.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
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