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concomitant Definition

con·comi·tant (-käm′ə tənt)

adjective

accompanying; attendant

Etymology: < LL concomitans: see concomitance

noun

an accompanying or attendant condition, circumstance, or thing

concomitant Related Forms

con·com′i·tantly adverb

concomitant Synonyms

concomitant

modif.

accompanying, attendant, connected, coactive, coordinate, associated with, coupled with, contemporaneous, joint, concurrent, conjoint, fellow, collateral, coefficient, attending, conjoined, corollary, belonging, agreeing, coincident, coterminous, accessory, concordant, synchronous, contemporary, coexistent, synergistic, simultaneous, isochronous, synergetic, isochronal; see also contemporary 1, simultaneous.

concomitant Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • consciousness: This makes happiness and misery necessary concomitants of consciousness, and thus conscious beings are endowed with a desire for happiness.
  • life: We have seen this is a concomitant of life itself.

Preposition: with

development: Concomitant with the development of new symptoms is an increase in difficulties with activities of daily living.

Adjective modifier

  • necessary: The growth in its population is a necessary concomitant of that vitality.
  • natural: The petition came from those who were suffering distress, and who displayed that discontent which was the natural concomitant of distress.. .
  • inevitable: As an inevitable concomitant to these measures, rents increased rapidly and Kay ( 1794 ) observed that they doubled or even trebled.
  • essential: Detention and rapid decision making would facilitate a major effort on removal which would be an essential concomitant.
  • physiological: The physiological concomitants of this psychological effort form the basis for the operations of the " lie-detector " .
  • certain: Kaufman W. The use of vitamin therapy to reverse certain concomitants of aging.

Modifies a noun

  • medication: These have generally occurred in patients with advanced HIV disease taking multiple concomitant medications.
  • administration: Caution is advised with concomitant administration of therapeutic agents which are highly bound to plasma proteins or which induce or inhibit hepatic enzymes.
  • chemotherapy: The two trials were designed to investigate whether concomitant chemotherapy affected patients ' immune responses to TroVax.
  • therapy: Responses were similar in patients who were or were not receiving concomitant therapies at baseline.
  • intake: In addition, concomitant intake of grapefruit juice should be avoided.
  • decrease: Increasing the duration of light exposure resulted in a concomitant decrease in cell viability.

Modifying Another Word

therefore: Therefore concomitant use of such agents with Anafranil is not recommended ( see sections 4.4 Special Warnings and Precautions for use ).