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осложне́ние — meaning in English

oslozhneniye

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English meaning

  • complication noun A problem or difficulty that makes a situation harder to deal with.

Senses

осложне́ние is used for these senses in English:

  • complication The state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; complexity.
  • complication (medicine) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.
  • sequela (medicine) Chiefly in the plural: a condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one, being either partly or wholly caused by it, or made possible by it.

complication — full definition

  1. noun A problem or difficulty that makes a situation harder to deal with.
  2. noun (medicine) A secondary condition that arises during or after an illness and makes it worse.
  3. noun (horology) An extra function on a watch beyond simply telling the time, such as a date display or moon phase.

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