Toolkit for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals. The Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) in Hospitals helps hospitals prevent CAUTI in patients and improve safety culture at the unit level by implementing concepts from the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP).
â¢ PRIMITIVE (noun). The noun PRIMITIVE has 3 senses: 1. a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization. 2. a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived. 3. a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms. Familiarity information: PRIMITIVE used as a noun is uncommon.
Primitive is related to the word prime, and the root of both words is primus, which is Latin for first. Since the phrase primitive man refers to the world's first people, you might think that the word primate has something to do with the similarity between early humans and monkeys, but it doesn't.