Dictionary Definition
complication
Noun
1 the act or process of complicating
2 a situation or condition that is complex or
confused; "her coming was a serious complication"
3 any disease or disorder that occurs during the
course of (or because of) another disease; "bed sores are a common
complication in cases of paralysis"
4 a development that complicates a situation;
"the court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications" [syn:
ramification]
5 puzzling complexity [syn: complicatedness,
knottiness]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From complicare.Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
- The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.
- A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper; someone you need to placate.
- A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
- A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.
Translations
act of complicating
- German: Komplikation
- Swedish: komplikation , förveckling
a disease
- German: Komplikation
- Swedish: svit
References
Webster 1913}}French
Etymology
From complicatio.Pronunciation
Extensive Definition
Several fields refer to complications:
- Complication (medicine) - an infrequent and unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment
- Complication (horology) - a special feature in a mechanical clock that causes the design of the movement to become more complicated
- "Complication", the seventh track off of the second disc of the double album release The Fragile by industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails.
complication in French: Complication
complication in Dutch: Complicatie
complication in Serbo-Croatian:
Komplikacija
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abnormality, abstruseness, action, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease,
allergy, anagnorisis, angle, architectonics, architecture, arduousness, argument, atmosphere, atrophy, background, bacterial
disease, bind, birth
defect, blight, bothersomeness, burdensomeness,
cardiovascular disease, catastrophe, characterization,
chronic disease, circulatory disease, clutch, color, complaint, complexity, complexness, condition, congenital defect,
continuity, contrivance, convolution, crabbedness, crampedness, crunch, deepness, defect, deficiency disease,
deformity,
degenerative disease, denouement, design, development, device, difficultness, difficulty, dilemma, disability, disease, disorder, distemper, drawback, embarrassing
position, embarrassment, endemic, endemic disease,
endocrine disease, entanglement, epidemic
disease, episode,
esoterica, fable, falling action, fine
how-do-you-do, functional disease, fungus disease, gastrointestinal
disease, genetic disease, gimmick, hairiness, handicap, hardness, hell to pay,
hereditary disease, hobble, hot water, how-do-you-do,
iatrogenic disease, illness, imbroglio, incident, indisposition, infectious
disease, infirmity,
intricacy, intricateness, involution, involvement, jam, knottiness, laboriousness, line, local color, malady, malaise, mess, mix, mood, morass, morbidity, morbus, motif, movement, muscular disease,
mythos, neurological
disease, nutritional disease, obstacle, obstruction, occupational
disease, onerousness, oppressiveness, organic
disease, pandemic disease, parlous straits, pass, pathological condition,
pathology, peripeteia, perplexity, pickle, pinch, plan, plant disease, plight, plot, predicament, pretty pass,
pretty pickle, pretty predicament, problem, profoundness, profundity, protozoan
disease, psychosomatic disease, quagmire, quicksand, ramification, recognition, reconditeness, respiratory
disease, rigor, rigorousness, rising
action, rockiness,
ruggedness, scheme, scrape, secondary disease,
secondary plot, seediness, sickishness, sickness, signs, slant, slough, snag, spot, squeeze, stew, sticky wicket, story, strait, straits, strenuousness, structure, subject, subplot, subtlety, swamp, switch, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, tanglement, technicality, the pip,
thematic development, theme, tight spot, tight squeeze,
tightrope, toilsomeness, tone, topic, toughness, tricky spot,
troublesomeness,
twist, unholy mess,
urogenital disease, virus disease, wasting disease, worm
disease