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nosocomial

[nos-uh-koh-mee-uh l]
adjective
  1. (of infections) contracted as a result of being hospitalized; hospital-acquired.
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Origin of nosocomial

1850–55; < New Latin nosocomi(um) hospital (< Late Greek nosokomeîon, equivalent to Greek noso- noso- + kom- (base with sense “care, attendance,” as in gērokómos caring for the old) + -eion suffix of location) + -al1
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British Dictionary definitions for nosocomial

nosocomial

adjective
  1. med originating in hospitalnosocomial disease
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Word Origin

C19: New Latin nosocomialis, via Late Latin from Greek, from nosokomos one that tends the sick, from nosos (see noso-) + komein to tend
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Word Origin and History for nosocomial

adj.

1855, from Latin nosocomium, from Greek nosokomeion, from nosos "disease." Nosocome was a 17c. word for "hospital."

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nosocomial in Medicine

nosocomial

(nŏs′ə-kō′mē-əl)
adj.
  1. Of or relating to a hospital.
  2. Of or being a secondary disorder associated with being treated in a hospital but unrelated to the patient's primary condition.
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