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Sequels vs Sequela - What's the difference?

sequels | sequela |

As nouns the difference between sequels and sequela

is that sequels is plural of sequel while sequela is a disease or condition which is caused by an earlier disease or problem.

sequels

English

Noun

(head)

    • 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") ----