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Complication

Complication Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Complication? [n] the act or process of complicating [n] puzzling complexity [n] a development that complicates a situation; "the court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications" [n] a situation or condition that is complex or confused; "her coming was a serious complication" [n] any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease; "bed sores are a common complication in cases of paralysis" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Complication: complicatedness \| knottiness \| ramification Related Terms \| Find terms related to Complication: abnormality \| abstruseness \| action \| acute disease \| affection \| affliction \| ailment \| allergic disease \| allergy \| anagnorisis \| angle \| architectonics \| architecture \| arduousness \| argument \| atmosphere \| atrophy \| background \| bacterial disease \| bind \| birth defect \| blight \| bothersomeness \| burdensomeness \| cardiovascular disease \| catastrophe \| characterization \| chronic disease \| circulatory disease \| clutch \| color \| complaint \| complexity \| complexness \| condition \| congenital defect \| continuity \| contrivance \| convolution \| crabbedness \| crampedness \| crunch \| deepness \| defect \| deficiency disease \| deformity \| degenerative disease \| denouement \| design \| development \| device \| difficultness \| difficulty \| dilemma \| disability \| disease \| disorder \| distemper \| drawback \| embarrassing position \| embarrassment \| endemic \| endemic disease \| endocrine disease \| entanglement \| epidemic disease \| episode \| esoterica \| fable \| falling action \| fine how-do-you-do \| functional disease \| fungus disease \| gastrointestinal disease \| genetic disease \| gimmick \| hairiness \| handicap \| hardness \| hell to pay \| hereditary disease \| hobble \| hot water \| how-do-you-do \| iatrogenic disease \| illness \| imbroglio \| incident \| indisposition \| infectious disease \| infirmity \| intricacy \| intricateness \| involution \| involvement \| jam \| knottiness \| laboriousness \| line \| local color \| malady \| malaise \| mess \| mix \| mood \| morass \| morbidity \| morbus \| motif \| movement \| muscular disease \| mythos \| neurological disease \| nutritional disease \| obstacle \| obstruction \| occupational disease \| onerousness \| oppressiveness \| organic disease \| pandemic disease \| parlous straits \| pass \| pathological condition \| pathology \| peripeteia \| perplexity \| pickle \| pinch \| plan \| plant disease \| plight \| plot \| predicament \| pretty pass \| pretty pickle \| pretty predicament \| problem \| profoundness \| profundity \| protozoan disease \| psychosomatic disease \| quagmire \| quicksand \| ramification \| recognition \| reconditeness \| respiratory disease \| rigor \| rigorousness \| rising action \| rockiness \| ruggedness \| scheme \| scrape \| secondary disease \| secondary plot \| seediness \| sickishness \| sickness \| signs \| slant \| slough \| snag \| spot \| squeeze \| stew \| sticky wicket \| story \| strait \| straits \| strenuousness \| structure \| subject \| subplot \| subtlety \| swamp \| switch \| symptomatology \| symptomology \| symptoms \| syndrome \| tanglement \| technicality \| the pip \| thematic development \| theme \| tight spot \| tight squeeze \| tightrope \| toilsomeness \| tone \| topic \| toughness \| tricky spot \| troublesomeness \| twist \| unholy mess \| urogenital disease \| virus disease \| wasting disease \| worm disease See Also \| complexity \| complexness \| development \| disease \| hindrance \| interference \| situation \| state of affairs Complication In Webster's Dictionary \Com`pli*ca"tion\, n. [L. compliasion: cf. F. complication.] 1. The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity. A complication of diseases. --Macaulay. Through and beyond these dark complications of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times. --Palfrey. 2. (Med.) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.

Complication Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Complication?

[n] the act or process of complicating
[n] puzzling complexity
[n] a development that complicates a situation; "the court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications"
[n] a situation or condition that is complex or confused; "her coming was a serious complication"
[n] any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease; "bed sores are a common complication in cases of paralysis"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Complication: complicatedness | knottiness | ramification

Complication In Webster's Dictionary

\Com`pli*ca"tion\, n. [L. compliasion: cf. F.
complication.]
1. The act or process of complicating; the state of being
   complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts;
   entanglement; complexity.

         A complication of diseases.           --Macaulay.

         Through and beyond these dark complications of the
         present, the New England founders looked to the
         great necessities of future times.    --Palfrey.

2. (Med.) A disease or diseases, or adventitious
   circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying
   a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.

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