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Repercussion vs Sequelae - What's the difference?

repercussion | sequelae |

As nouns the difference between repercussion and sequelae

is that repercussion is a consequence or ensuing result of some action while sequelae is irregular plural of sequela.

repercussion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A consequence or ensuing result of some action.
    • You realize this little stunt of yours is going to have some pretty serious repercussions .
  • The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation.
    • the repercussion of sound
  • * Hare
    • Ever echoing back in endless repercussion .
  • (music) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
  • (medicine) The subsidence of a tumour or eruption by the action of a repellent.
    • (Dunglison)
  • (obstetrics) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the foetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * (consequence) aftereffect * (consequence) consequence

    sequelae

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (sequela)

    • sequela

    English

    Noun

    (sequelae)
  • (pathology) A disease or condition which is caused by an earlier disease or problem.
  • * 1970 , JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition ,
    • Complications: haematoma formation is a dangerous sequela of this operation, and careful drainage with polythene tubing was carried out.
  • * 1973 Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise ,
    • ‘Ay, ay,’ said Stephen testily, ‘it is showy enough to look at, no doubt, but these are only the superficial sequelae . There is no essential lesion.’
  • * 2003 , Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason , Penguin 2004, p. 407,
    • Self-dosing brought emotional and physical sequelae of its own.

    External links

    * (wikipedia "sequela") ----