Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Concomitant

Concomitant: existing or occurring with something else, often in a lesser way; accompanying; concurrent
This term is used at time to describe symptoms or medical processes.

"She was not looking forward to the hangover with its concomitant headache."

Found at work: "We can show with serial measurements that there has been an explosion in American body size in the last 20 years. The most frightening aspect is the concomitant growth in the frequency of weight-related diseases." Cheery stuff, that.

Source: "concomitant." Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. 15 Dec. 2009.

















Image: Concomitant signals act synergistically.

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