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co-morbidity

co-morbidity is the alternative form of comorbidity.

Meaning of comorbidity

Noun

comorbidity (plural comorbidities)

  1. (uncountable) The presence of one or more disorders (or diseases) in addition to a primary disease or disorder.
    • Extensive comorbidity is the hallmark of immunodeficiencies.
  2. (countable) A disease thus coexisting.
    • Coronary artery disease is often a comorbidity of diabetes mellitus.
  3. (uncountable) The effect of such additional disorders or diseases.

Forms of co-morbidity

pluralco-morbidities

Questions about co-morbidity

What is co-morbidity the alternative form of?
Co-morbidity is the alternative form of comorbidity.

Words near co-morbidity in the dictionary

  1. co-mingle
  2. co-mingled
  3. co-mingles
  4. co-mingling
  5. co-morbidities
  6. co-morbidity
  7. co-mother
  8. co-mother-in-law
  9. co-mothers
  10. co-mothers-in-law
  11. co-NP

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Adapted from Wiktionary: co-morbidity (page history and authors); comorbidity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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