COMPLICATION • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Complication

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/kˌɑmpləkˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Complication n.

The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity. "A complication of diseases." "Through and beyond these dark complications of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times."

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

See images of 'Complication'

Etymology of 'Complication'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Complication" Quotes from Famous Books

... that I was interested in when I was married; it was a sort of marriage in extremis; and if I am where I am, it is thanks to the care of that lady, who married me when I was a mere complication of cough and bones, much fitter for an emblem ...

— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

... Cowperwood as in any way probable—the projection of an ordinance granting to a certain South Side corporation the privilege of erecting and operating an elevated road. This was as severe a blow as any that had yet been dealt Cowperwood, for it introduced a new factor and complication into the Chicago street-railway situation which had hitherto, for all its troubles, ...

— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser

... rotted and were good for nothing. Separated by what—God's action or their own? As it stands the interpretation is complicated. God spoils Israel because of their pride (verse 9) and Israel spoil themselves by disobedience and idolatry (verse 10). The complication may be due to a later addition to the text. But this question is not serious. Neither is that of the place where Jeremiah is said to have buried the cloth. Perath, the spelling in the text, is the Hebrew name for the Euphrates ...

— Jeremiah • George Adam Smith

... This complication in the arrangement of the apparatus has no importance as regards those tuning forks the number of whose vibrations exceeds a hundred per second, for in such a case these are given an amplitude of a few millimeters only; but it would be of importance with ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 • Various

... most recent, shows a revival of old types of ghosts, together with the innovations of the new. There are specters that take a real part in the plot complication, and those that merely cast threatening looks at the living, or at least, are content to speak a piece and depart. Some spirits are dumb, while others ...

— Famous Modern Ghost Stories • Various

More quotes...