Definition of "nosocomial" []

• Of or relating to a hospital. (adjective)
• Of or being a secondary disorder associated with being treated in a hospital but unrelated to the patient's primary condition: a nosocomial infection. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Hospital-acquired infections are called nosocomial infections."
• "Diarrhea: need for cultures in nosocomial diarrhea"
• "Diarrhea - need for cultures in nosocomial diarrhea"