Comorbidity vs Concomitant - What's the difference?
comorbidity | concomitant |
(medicine) The presence of one or more disorders (or diseases) in addition to a primary disease or disorder.(rfex)
* {{quote-book
, title=Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Comorbidity
, author=Ruth Gross-Isseroff, Abraham Weizman
, year=2006
(medicine) The effect of such additional disorders or diseases.
Accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.
* (John Locke)
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 41:
Something happening or existing at the same time.
* 1970 , , Bantam Books , pg.93:
* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 301:
An invariant homogeneous polynomial in the coefficients of a form, a covariant variable, and a contravariant variable.
As nouns the difference between comorbidity and concomitant
is that comorbidity is (medicine) the presence of one or more disorders (or diseases) in addition to a primary disease or disorder while concomitant is something happening or existing at the same time.As an adjective concomitant is
accompanying; conjoined; attending; concurrent.comorbidity
English
(wikipedia comorbidity)Noun
(comorbidities)citation, passage=The reported comorbidity between categorical personality disorders and OCD ranges between 33 and 87 percent (Bejerot et al, 1998).}}
See also
* cooccurrenceExternal links
*concomitant
English
Adjective
(-)- It has pleased our wise Creator to annex to several objects, as also to several of our thoughts, a concomitant pleasure.
- The new technology on which super-industrialism is based, much of it blue-printed in American research laboratories, brings with it an inevitable acceleration of change in society and a concomitant speed-up of the pace of individual life as well.
Synonyms
* (following as a consequence) accompanying, adjoining, attendant, incidentalNoun
(en noun)- The declining commitment to place is thus related not to mobility per se, but to a concomitant of mobility- the shorter duration of place relationships.
- It is also instructive to consider the relation of these dreams to anxiety dreams. In the dreams we have been discussing, a repressed wish has found a means of evading censorship—and the distortion which censorship involves. The invariable concomitant is that painful feelings are experienced in the dream.