nosocomial

1. 1.

   taking place or originating in a hospital

   “nosocomial infection”

Questions about nosocomial

What does nosocomial mean?

nosocomial means "taking place or originating in a hospital".

How many syllables are in nosocomial?

nosocomial has 5 syllables and divides as no-so-co-mi-al under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is nosocomial a common word?

nosocomial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.