Complication

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  • noun. The act of complicating.
  • noun. A confused or intricate relationship of parts.
  • noun. A factor, condition, or element that complicates.
  • noun. A secondary disease, an accident, or a negative reaction occurring during the course of an illness and usually aggravating the illness.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In psychology, the simultaneous association of perceptions or ideas of different senses.
  • noun. A complex combination or intricate intermingling of things, parts, elements, etc.; especially, a perplexing or incongruous intermixture or combination; a confused complex or complexity: as, a complication of knots in a rope; a complication of ideas, diseases, or misfortunes; the complication of one's affairs with those of another.
  • noun. That which renders complex, involved, or intricate; that which causes difficulty, entanglement, or interference; an involved and troublesome or embarrassing state of affairs.
  • noun. An entwining or infolding; an embrace.
  • noun. In entomology, the manner in which an insect folds its wings when at rest.
  • noun. In biology, a process the reverse of growth or development, by which the heterogeneous tends toward homogeneity.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.
  • noun. A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.
  • noun. A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper; someone you need to placate.
  • noun. A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
  • noun. A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. puzzling complexity
  • noun. a situation or condition that is complex or confused
  • noun. any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease
  • noun. the act or process of complicating
  • noun. a development that complicates a situation
  • Word Usage
    "This complication is all the more tragic because most of these children have an isolated anomaly and do well after postnatal resection."
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