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COMORBIDITY

Specialty Definition: COMORBIDITY

DomainDefinition

Health

The presence of co-existing or additional diseases with reference to an initial diagnosis or with reference to the index condition that is the subject of study. Comorbidity may affect the ability of affected individuals to function and also their survival; it may be used as a prognostic indicator for length of hospital stay, cost factors, and outcome or survival. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: COMORBIDITY

DomainTitle

Books

  • Comorbidity in Affective Disorders (reference)

  • Comorbidity of Addictive and Psychiatric Disorders (The Journal of Addictive Diseases) (reference)

  • Comorbidity of Mood and Anxiety Disorders (reference)

  • Mental disorders in suicide : a comorbidity approach (reference)

  • Psychiatric Comorbidity in Epilepsy: Basic Mechanisms, Diagnosis, and Treatment (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: COMORBIDITY

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Further investigation is needed of mechanisms whereby comorbidity factors are reduced by these surgical procedures. (references)

The present practice is to compare postoperative indicators of comorbidity to the same patient's own preoperative status. (references)

Selection should be based on patient preference in the context of a comprehensive assessment of urgency, history, and comorbidity. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: COMORBIDITY

"COMORBIDITY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "COMORBIDITY" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1882,615

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COMORBIDITY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

comorbidity

18

comorbidity national survey

5

comorbidity national study

4

anorexia comorbidity compulsive disorder obsessive

3

comorbidity definition

2

comorbidity psychiatry ptsd

2

comorbidity ptsd

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: COMORBIDITY

Language Translations for "COMORBIDITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

comorbiditeit. (various references)

   

French

  

co-morbidité, morbidité associée. (various references)

   

German

  

Co-Morbidität, gemeinsames Auftreten von Erkrankungen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συνοδός νοσηρότης. (various references)

   

Italian

  

patologia concomitante, morbosit concomitante. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

omorbiditycay

   

Portuguese

  

co-morbilidade. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: COMORBIDITY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-d-i-i-m-o-o-r-t-y"

-2 letters: morbidity.

-3 letters: botryoid, bromidic, microdot.

-4 letters: cormoid, motoric, robotic.

-5 letters: biotic, bromic, bromid, broody, broomy, comity, corody, corymb, cymoid, dimity, doctor, idiocy, imbody, midrib, miotic, morbid, myotic, octroi, tomboy, tomcod, toroid.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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