comorbidity

English

Etymology

co- +‎ morbidity

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.

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

Related terms

• comorbid

Translations

presence of one or more disorders

• Czech: komorbidita f
• Dutch: comorbiditeit f
• French: comorbidité (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Komorbidität (de) f, Begleiterkrankung
• Persian: همایندی مرضی
• Spanish: comorbilidad f

See also

• cooccurrence

Further reading

• “comorbidity”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.