Lexic.us

Definition of Complication

1. Noun. The act or process of complicating.

2. Noun. A situation or condition that is complex or confused. "Her coming was a serious complication"

3. Noun. 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. Noun. A development that complicates a situation. "The court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications"

5. Noun. Puzzling complexity.

Definition of Complication

1. n. The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.

Definition of Complication

1. Noun. The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity. ¹

2. Noun. A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper; someone you need to placate. ¹

3. Noun. (medicine) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it. ¹

4. Noun. A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Complication

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Complication

1. A term used to describe additional medical problems that develop following a procedure, treatment or illness. Complications are usually directly or indirectly related to a procedure (risk of the procedure), treatment (side effect or toxicity) or illness. Origin: L. Complicatio (29 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Complication

compliant compliantly complicacies complicacy complicate complicated complicated cataract complicated fracture complicated migraine complicatedly

complicatedness complicately complicateness complicates complicating complication (current term) complications complice complices complicit

complicities complicitous complicitousness complicity complied complier compliers complies compliment

Literary usage of Complication

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Genesis of Art-form: An Essay in Comparative æsthetics Showing the by George Lansing Raymond (1893)
"INTERSPERSION, complication, AND CONTINUITY. Interspersion in Nature and Art—complication in Nature and Art—Its Relation to Order—Continuity—Should not ..."

2. A Handbook on Story Writing by Blanche Colton Williams (1917)
"CHAPTER IV PLOT: STRUGGLE AND complication 1. Struggle. The struggle may be inherent in the situation or connoted by it; tentative classification of ..."

3. Pneumonia: Its Supposed Connection, Pathological and Etiological, with by René La Roche (1854)
"In such instances of complication, each of the two diseases may be simply modified by, or as it were tinged with, the other, fr e. a violent pneumonia may ..."

4. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1896)
"The chief object of the present paper is to confirm the statement made elsewhere that typhoid fever may appear as a late complication of influenza, ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1870)
"—Dr. JK SPENDER, in an instructive article (British Medical Journal, July 16, 1870), remarks that "this complication has been noticed by nearly every ..."

6. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"27) adopts this usage, except that he would subsume complication under association with the special qualification made in the phrase ' impressional ..."

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