complication
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6.2
- noun
- /ˌkɒmplɪˈkeɪʃən/
- Specialized
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complicación
- It is, for example, one of the worst possible complications of pregnancy.
- complication rate
- risk of complications
- postoperative complications
You know, he got, he had some complications from COVID.
- You know, he got, he had some complications from COVID.
- We know that young infants are in a high risk group for complications, hospitalizations and deaths.
- Also, again exposing you to the potential side effects and complications that come from taking steroids.
- Stay away from all these health complications.
- And it's a technically formidable procedure that has a rate of complication.
- And the signs in the blood work are that she is developing a life threatening complication of pregnancy.
- They should be very interested in decreasing your risk and rate of complications.
- They think they are doomed to a life of weird food, lots of pills and injections, lots of diabetic complications, and an early, painful death.
- I'm so scared of these long term complications of going high.
Examples
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You were born a week early, but there were no complications.
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Two families expressed strong concerns about surgical complications, including the potential death of the child.
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Thousands were killed in attacks, others died from health complications due to lack of medicine and clean water.
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OK, so now let's talk about the possible medical complications that can come from this.
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Said the mother had died of complications.
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And the signs in the blood work are that she is developing a life threatening complication of pregnancy.
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So he died from complications due to Alzheimer's.
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Mother, Joanna, died from complications during childbirth.
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Long-term health complications and cancer diagnosis claimed the lives of thousands of first responders.
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Both my mother and my wife died from the complications of this terrible disease.
Synonyms
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A health problem that affects a person, often long-term
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A serious problem that harms a community or system
A health problem that follows an illness, injury, or treatment
A health problem that happens after an illness or injury
How Serious
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- US
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- Specialized
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
complication = complicate (transparent) = complicate + ion
The medical sense is a conventional extension of 'complicate' (an additional difficulty or adverse development), so the derivation from 'complicate' + '-ion' is clear.
Etymology
The word complication comes from the Latin parts com- 'together' and plicare 'to fold', so picture a new problem 'folding into' an illness. That's why a medical complication is an extra problem that appears with a disease and makes the patient's condition more difficult.