comorbidity
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See also: co-morbidity
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Etymology[edit]
From co- + morbidity or comorbid + -ity.
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Noun[edit]
comorbidity (plural comorbidities)
- (medicine, uncountable) The presence of one or more disorders (or diseases) in addition to a primary disease or disorder.
- Extensive comorbidity is the hallmark of immunodeficiencies.
- 2006, Ruth Gross-Isseroff, Abraham Weizman, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Comorbidity[1]:
- The reported comorbidity between categorical personality disorders and OCD ranges between 33 and 87 percent (Bejerot et al, 1998).
- (medicine, countable) A disease thus coexisting.
- Coronary artery disease is often a comorbidity of diabetes mellitus.
- 2020 October 2, “Trump’s Positive Coronavirus Test Upends Campaign in Final Stretch”, in New York Times[2]:
- Yet in private conversations, members of his staff were also candid that the president has comorbidities that could make him more susceptible to a severe bout of the virus.
- (medicine, uncountable) The effect of such additional disorders or diseases.
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presence of one or more disorders
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disease thus coexisting
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See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- comorbidity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “comorbidity”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.