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10-letter words (1 found)

NOSOCOMIAL,

9-letter words (1 found)

COOLAMONS,

8-letter words (5 found)

COOLAMON,LACONISM,LIMACONS,MOONSAIL,SCOLIOMA,

7-letter words (19 found)

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You can make 403 words from nosocomial according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of nosocomial

nosocomial

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin nosocomīum (“hospital, infirmary”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Nosocomīum is borrowed from Ancient Greek νοσοκομεῖον (nosokomeîon, “hospital, infirmary”), from νοσοκομέω (nosokoméō, “to tend the sick”) + -εῖον (-eîon, suffix forming nouns denoting places); νοσοκομέω (nosokoméō) is from νόσος (nósos, “disease, illness, sickness”) (further etymology uncertain) + κομέω (koméō, “to take care of, look after, tend”) (from Proto-Indo-European *kem(H)- (“to be tired; to exert oneself”)).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nŏs'ə-kōʹmē-əl, IPA(key): /ˌnɒ.sə(ʊ)ˈkəʊ.mi.əl/, /ˌnəʊ-/
  • (General American) enPR: nŏs'ə-kōʹmē-əl, nō'sə-kōʹmē-əl, IPA(key): /ˌnɑ.səˈkoʊ.mi.əl/, /ˌnoʊ-/
  • Hyphenation: no‧so‧com‧i‧al

Adjective

nosocomial (not comparable) (formal)

  1. (pathology) Of an infection or its cause: arising from the environment of, or treatment in, a hospital. [from early 19th c.]
    Hypernym: iatrogenic
  2. (medicine, uncommon) Of, relating to, or happening in a hospital.

Derived terms

  • nosocomiality
  • nosocomially
  • NP (“abbreviation of nosocomial pneumonia”)

Related terms

  • noso-
  • nosocome (obsolete, rare)
  • nosocomephobia
  • nosocomium (historical)
  • nosology

Translations

References

Further reading

  • hospital-acquired infection on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • nocosomial

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

nosocomial m or f (masculine and feminine plural nosocomials)

  1. (relational) hospital; nosocomial

Further reading

  • “nosocomial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “nosocomial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɔ.zɔ.kɔ.mjal/
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Hyphenation: no‧so‧co‧mial

Adjective

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

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

Spanish

Etymology

From nosocomio (“hospital”) +‎ -al (“-al”).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

nosocomial m or f (masculine and feminine plural nosocomiales)

  1. nosocomial (relating to a hospital)

Further reading

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

Source: wiktionary.org