Medical Dictionary

complication

noun com·pli·ca·tion \ˌkäm-plə-ˈkā-shən\

Medical Definition of COMPLICATION

:  a secondary disease or condition that develops in the course of a primary disease or condition and arises either as a result of it or from independent causes

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