Comorbidityとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From co- +‎ morbidity.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌkəʊmɔː(ɹ)ˈbɪdɪti/

名詞

comorbidity (複数形 comorbidities)

1. (medicine, uncountable) The presence of one or more disorders (または diseases) in addition to a primary disease or disorder.

   Extensive comorbidity is the hallmark of immunodeficiencies.

   • 2006, Ruth Gross-Isseroff, Abraham Weizman, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Comorbidity‎^[1]:

     The reported comorbidity between categorical personality disorders and OCD ranges between 33 and 87 percent (Bejerot et al, 1998).

2. (medicine, countable) A disease thus coexisting.

   Coronary artery disease is often a comorbidity of diabetes mellitus.

   • 2020 October 2, “Trump’s Positive Coronavirus Test Upends Campaign in Final Stretch”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     Yet in private conversations, members of his staff were also candid that the president has comorbidities that could make him more susceptible to a severe bout of the virus.

3. (medicine, uncountable) The effect of such additional disorders or diseases.

同意語

• comorbid condition
• co-morbid condition

関連する語

• comorbid
• morbidity
• morbid

参考

• complication
• cooccurrence (co-occurrence, coöccurrence)
• sequela

Further reading

• comorbidity on Wikipedia.
• comorbidity at OneLook Dictionary Search