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Webster 1913 Edition
Nosocomial
Nosˊo-co′mi-al
(nŏsˊō̍-kō′mĭ-al)
, Adj.
[L.
nosocomium
a hospital, Gr. νοσοκομεῖον
; νόσοσ
disease + κομεῖν
to attend to.] 1.
Of or pertaining to a hospital;
as,
. nosocomial
atmosphereDunglison.
Definition 2024
nosocomial
nosocomial
English
Adjective
nosocomial (not comparable)
- (medicine, chiefly of infections or their causal agents) Arising from hospital treatment or environment.
- (chiefly applied to bad results) Of, relating to, happening in a hospital.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)
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French
Adjective
nosocomial m (feminine singular nosocomiale, masculine plural nosocomiaux, feminine plural nosocomiales)