nosocomial
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /nɒsəˈkoʊmi.əl/
nosocomial (not comparable)
- (medicine, chiefly, of infections or their causal agents) Arising from hospital treatment or environment.
- (uncommon) Of, relating to, 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.
- 1922, VM/SAC, Veterinary Medicine and Small Animal Clinician, page 381:
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