comorbidity

See also: co-morbidity

English

Alternative forms

• co-morbidity

Etymology

From co- +‎ morbidity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkəʊmɔː(ɹ)ˈbɪdɪti/

Noun

comorbidity (plural comorbidities)

1. (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).

2. (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.

3. (medicine, uncountable) The effect of such additional disorders or diseases.

Synonyms

• comorbid condition
• co-morbid condition

Related terms

• comorbid
• morbidity
• morbid

Translations

presence of one or more disorders

• Chinese:

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• Czech: komorbidita f
• Dutch: comorbiditeit (nl) f
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• French: comorbidité (fr) f
• German: Komorbidität (de) f, Begleiterkrankung
• Hungarian: komorbiditás
• Indonesian: komorbiditas
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: komorbiditet (no) m

  Nynorsk: komorbiditet m

• Persian: همایندی مرضی
• Romanian: comorbiditate f
• Russian: коморбидность (ru) (komorbidnostʹ)
• Spanish: comorbilidad f
• Ukrainian: коморбідність f (komorbidnistʹ)

disease thus coexisting

• Hungarian: komorbiditás
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• Indonesian: komorbiditas
• Romanian: comorbiditate f
• Vietnamese: bệnh mắc kèm, bệnh đồng mắc, bệnh cùng mắc, bệnh đồng diễn

See also

• complication
• cooccurrence (co-occurrence, coöccurrence)
• sequela

Further reading

• comorbidity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “comorbidity”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.