Comorbidity

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  • noun. The presence of one or more disorders (or diseases) in addition to a primary disease or disorder.
  • noun. The effect of such additional disorders or diseases.
    • Word Usage
    "There's a lot of overlap with obsessive-compulsive disorder, what they call comorbidity -- depression, eating disorders, sometimes ADHD."
    cross-reference
    cooccurrence  
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