nosocomial

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of an infection or its cause: arising from the environment of, or treatment in, a hospital.

   “Gosselin discovered that this mode of [raw cotton] dressing was not a certain prophylactic against nosocomial intoxication, because he saw a patient die of purulent infection, whose limb had been amputated in his service, and in another case an attack of erysipelas followed.”

2. sıfat Of, relating to, or happening in a hospital.

   “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.”