Meaning

3 senses
  1. (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.

    Komorbidität, Begleiterkrankung

    коморбидностьkomorbidnostʹ

    коморбідністьkomorbidnistʹ

  2. (countable)A disease thus coexisting.

    Coronary artery disease is often a comorbidity of diabetes mellitus.

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

Translations

7 languages
Українська
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presence of one or more disorders in addition to a primary one:
Русский
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presence of one or more disorders in addition to a primary one:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
presence of one or more disorders in addition to a primary one:

Origin

From co- + morbidity or comorbid + -ity.

From co- + morbidity or comorbid + -ity.

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Forms

plural: comorbidities

Synonyms

2 synonyms
comorbid conditionco-morbid condition

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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