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Comorbid vs Concurrent - What's the difference?

comorbid | concurrent |

As adjectives the difference between comorbid and concurrent

is that comorbid is (medicine|of a disease or symptom) that occurs at the same time as another while concurrent is happening at the same time; simultaneous.

As a noun concurrent is

one who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.

comorbid

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (medicine, of a disease or symptom) That occurs at the same time as another
  • * {{quote-book
  • , passage=Research shows that depression is often comorbid with other psychiatric and physical illnesses citation , title=Healthy People 2000 , year=2000}}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , passage=They found that PTSD (50,3% men, 36.5% women), alcohol dependence (60.5% men, 8.1% women) and comorbid alcohol dependence and PTSD (69.6% men, 11.7% women) were common. , url=http://books.google.com/books?id=2SXuXnlz3PgC&pg=PA151&dq=comorbid&lr=&as_brr=1&ei=FZX5SrflN4XgyAT_kJjlDg
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  • , title=Mental Health Atlas 2005 , year=2005 }}

    concurrent

    English

    of building models [http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Concurrent_testings].

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Happening at the same time; simultaneous.
  • * Tyndall
  • changes concurrent with the visual changes in the eye
    (Francis Bacon)
  • Belonging to the same period; contemporary.
  • Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contibuting to the same event of effect.
  • * Sir J. Davies
  • I join with these laws the personal presence of the king's son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation.
  • * Bishop Warburton
  • the concurrent testimony of antiquity
  • Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects.
  • the concurrent jurisdiction of courts
  • (geometry) Meeting in one point.
  • Running alongside one another on parallel courses; moving together in space.
  • (computing) Involving more than one thread of computation.
  • Coordinate terms

    * leading, lagging

    Derived terms

    * concurrent indicator * concurrently

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.
  • * Dr. H. More
  • To all affairs of importance there are three necessary concurrents time, industry, and faculties.
  • One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent.
  • * Holland
  • Menander had no concurrent in his time that came near unto him.
  • One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow.
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