The word "concomitant" means occurring during the same time period. It usually refers to secondary symptoms that occur with a main symptom.
Reviewed ByReview Date: 02/20/2011
David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
Concomitant is an adjective meaning "naturally associated with."
Concomitant
Earthquakes are often concomitant with tsunami.
The Oxford English Dictionary has two definitions of the word concomitant. As an adjective, concomitant means going together or accompanying. As a noun, it is defined as an accompaniment or a companion.
What is concomitant
A concomitant illness is one that is occurring while another illness is occurring. For instance, if a person is struggling to control diabetes and then develops an ear infection, the ear infection is said to be a concomitant illness.
She loved planning for the wedding, with all its concomitant worries. The word can be used as an adjective or a noun, depending on the context.
physical therapy
When you judge your act WHILE you're doing it.
do you mean concomitance
Yes, you just used it in a sentence. Why are you asking such a silly question?
They are often used interchangably. If you want to nuance the difference, concurrent has a bit more focus on the temporal aspect of coinciding at the same time, while concomitant has more focus on accompanying with a sense of lesser importance. From my sense of language I use concomitant for medication used at the same time, but unrelated to the patient's condition I am currently working on. For medical conditions that are present today but not the focus of my work, I use "concurrent diseases".