See Also: Community-acquired infection(health)
community-acquired infections(medicine)
Acquired(medicine)
Acquired(health)
acquired(dictionary)
acquired trichoepithelioma(medicine)
acquired hypogammaglobulinaemia(medicine)
After-Acquired Collateral(money)
acquired ichthyosis(medicine)
Acquired mutation(health)

Oedipal (iou) and Community-acquired infection (health)


Oedipal (iou)



Oedipal adjective. . M20.
[from OEDIPUS + -AL1.]
Psychoanalysis. Characterized by an Oedipus complex; of or pertaining to subconscious sexual desire felt by a child for a parent of the opposite sex, and conflict with the parent of the same sex.
New Left Review They interpreted the assassination in Oedipal terms, Trotsky being..the hated father-substitute.

Community-acquired infection (health)


An infection acquired in the community. In contrast to a nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infection.