"comorbidity" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌkəʊmɔː(ɹ)ˈbɪdɪti/ Forms: comorbidities [plural]
Etymology: From co- + morbidity or comorbid + -ity. Etymology templates: {{pre|en|co|morbidity}} co- + morbidity, {{suf|en|comorbid|ity}} comorbid + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun}} comorbidity (plural comorbidities)
  1. (medicine, uncountable) The presence of one or more disorders (or diseases) in addition to a primary disease or disorder. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine Translations (presence of one or more disorders): komorbidita [feminine] (Czech), comorbiditeit [feminine] (Dutch), komorbiditeetti (Finnish), comorbidité [feminine] (French), Komorbidität [feminine] (German), Begleiterkrankung (German), komorbiditás (Hungarian), komorbiditas (Indonesian), komorbiditet [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), komorbiditet [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), همایندی مرضی (Persian), comorbiditate [feminine] (Romanian), коморбидность (komorbidnostʹ) (Russian), comorbilidad [feminine] (Spanish), коморбідність (komorbidnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-comorbidity-en-noun-Q5wXhFPJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with co-, English terms suffixed with -ity Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 40 7 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with co-: 45 32 24 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 57 31 12 Topics: medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'presence of one or more disorders': 87 4 9
  2. (medicine, countable) A disease thus coexisting. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Medicine Translations (disease thus coexisting): rinnakkaissairaus (Finnish), komorbiditás (Hungarian), komorbiditas (Indonesian), comorbiditate [feminine] (Romanian), bệnh mắc kèm (Vietnamese), bệnh đồng mắc (Vietnamese), bệnh cùng mắc (Vietnamese), bệnh đồng diễn (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-comorbidity-en-noun--k5MGciK Topics: medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'disease thus coexisting': 7 91 2
  3. (medicine, uncountable) The effect of such additional disorders or diseases. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-comorbidity-en-noun-~-XjE2zs Topics: medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: comorbid condition, co-morbid condition, co-morbidity Related terms: comorbid, morbidity, morbid, complication, cooccurrence (alt: co-occurrence, coöccurrence), sequela

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