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Definition: Nosocomial |
NosocomialAdjective1. Taking place or originating in a hospital; "nosocomial infection". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Nosocomial \Nos`o*co"mi*al\, adjective. [Latin expression nosocomium hospital, Greek; disease to attend to.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Health | Pertaining to or originating in the hospital, said of an infection not present or incubating prior to admittance to the hospital, but generally occurring 72 hours after admittance; the term is usually used to refer to patient disease, but hospital personnel may also acquire nosocomial infection. (references) |
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Crosswords: Nosocomial |
| Specialty definitions using "nosocomial": Acinetobacter calcoaceticus ♦ Burkholderia cepacia ♦ Enterobacter aerogenes ♦ Pseudomonas aeruginosa. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Nosocomial" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (nosocomial), Portuguese (nosocomial). |
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 | Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive diplococcal organism, usually affecting the debilitated, elderly or the immunocompromised individual, and is often responsible for nosocomial infections acquired during lengthy hospital stays.Credit: CDC. |  | Enterobacter spp. such as E. sakazakii and E. cloacae are opportunistic pathogens, and are responsible for many nosocomial, and neonatal infections.Credit: CDC. |
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Health | Rarely, nosocomial postsurgical transmission occurs. (references) | |
Fourth most common cause of nosocomial bloodstream infections. (references) | ||
Fiore AE, Butler JC. Detecting nosocomial Legionnaires' disease. (references) | ||
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| "Nosocomial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nosocomial" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "nosocomial": non-nosocomial. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nosocomial infection | 53 |
nosocomial | 28 |
nosocomial pneumonia | 21 |
national nosocomial infection surveillance | 4 |
cost infection nosocomial | 3 |
infection national nosocomial surveillance system | 3 |
definition infection nosocomial | 2 |
infeccion nosocomial | 2 |
infection nosocomial prevention | 2 |
infection nosocomial rate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nosocomial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | nosokomiel, nosokomial, nosocomial, noskomiel, hospitals-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | nosocomiaal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nosokomiaalinen, sairaalasyntyinen, sairaala- (clinical medicine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | nosocomial. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | nosokomial. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | νοσοκομειακός (clinical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | nosocomiale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | osocomialnay nosocomial. (various references) nosocomial. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "nosocomial" (pronounced 'Nos`o*co"mi*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-m-n-o-o-o-s" | |
-2 letters: laconism, limacons, moonsail, scolioma. | |
-3 letters: alnicos, anosmic, camions, clonism, limacon, locoism, malison, maniocs, masonic, oilcans, oomiacs. | |
-4 letters: alnico, aloins, amnios, anomic, camion, casino, claims, colins, coloni, colons, consol, limans, linacs, macons, manics, manioc, mascon, moolas, mosaic, nicols, oilcan, oilman, oomiac, salmon, saloon, simoon, social, socman, solano, solion. | |
-5 letters: aloin, amino, amins, amnic, amnio, anils. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-m-n-o-o-o-s" | |
+2 letters: cosmogonical, cosmopolitan. | |
+3 letters: compositional, cosmopolitans. | |
+4 letters: neocolonialism. | |
+5 letters: compositionally, conglomerations, cosmopolitanism, macroevolutions, neocolonialisms, nonastronomical. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 6F 73 6F 63 6F 6D 69 61 6C |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. --- ... --- -.-. --- -- .. .- .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 01110011 01101111 01100011 01101111 01101101 01101001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o s o c o m i a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 006F 0073 006F 0063 006F 006D 0069 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48818581698179756778 |
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