Noso Health Dictionary

Infection pertaining to a hospital or an infirmary.... nosocomial infection

The term applied to scienti?c classi?cation of diseases.... nosology

A term meaning associated with hospitals.

A nosocomial infection is one acquired by a patient in hospital.... nosocomial

n. a genus of fleas. The common rat flea of temperate regions, N. fasciatus, will, in the absence of rats, bite humans and may therefore transmit plague or murine typhus from an infected rat population. The rat flea is also an intermediate host for the larval stage of two tapeworms, *Hymenolepis diminuta and H. nana.... nosopsyllus