nosocomial

From Late Latin nosocomīum (“hospital”) +‎ -al, from Ancient Greek νοσοκομεῖον (nosokomeîon), from νόσος (nósos, “disease, illness”) + κομέω (koméō, “to take care of”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌnɒsəˈkəʊmi.əl/, enPR: nŏs'ə-kōʹmē-əl

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌnɑsəˈkoʊmi.əl/, /ˌnoʊsəˈkoʊmi.əl/, enPR: nŏs'ə-kōʹmē-əl, nō'sə-kōʹmē-əl
• Hyphenation: nos‧o‧co‧mi‧al

nosocomial (not comparable)

1. (medicine, chiefly of infections or their causal agents) Arising from hospital treatment or environment.
2. (uncommon) Of, relating to, or happening in a hospital.
   • 1922, VM/SAC, Veterinary Medicine and Small Animal Clinician, page 381:

     Unique Nosocomial Treatment

     After this, I applied a bandage […]

   • 1980, Ann-Marie Göransson, Cholegraphy: Its Applicability and Reliability in Connection with Gall-stone Operations : a Follow-up Study of 534 Patients Operated on Because of Cholelithiasis:

     It is also in part the nosocomial treatment schedules that have drawn our attention to this important field. I suggest that with shock lung we are dealing with a problem of multiple organ failure, not just the lung.

   Synonym: iatrogenic

• nosocomially
• nosocomial pneumonia (hospital-acquired pneumonia)

• nosology

• nocosomial

nosocomi (“hospital”, from Ancient Greek νοσοκομεῖον (nosokomeîon)) +‎ -al (“-al”)

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /no.zo.ko.miˈal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /nu.zu.ku.miˈal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: no‧so‧co‧mi‧al

nosocomial (masculine and feminine plural nosocomials)

1. nosocomial (relating to a hospital)

• “nosocomial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “nosocomial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

From Late Latin nosocomīum (“hospital”) +‎ -al, from Ancient Greek νοσοκομεῖον (nosokomeîon).

• IPA^(key): /nɔ.zɔ.kɔ.mjal/
• Rhymes: -al

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• Hyphenation: no‧so‧co‧mial

nosocomial (feminine nosocomiale, masculine plural nosocomiaux, feminine plural nosocomiales)

1. (relational) hospital; nosocomial
2. (medicine) nosocomial (arising from hospital treatment)

nosocomio (“hospital”) +‎ -al (“-al”)

• IPA^(key): /nosokoˈmjal/ [no.so.koˈmjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: no‧so‧co‧mial

nosocomial (plural nosocomiales)

1. nosocomial (relating to a hospital)

• “nosocomial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014