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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Accompanying; concomitant.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Med.) Usually attending a disease, but not always.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective medicine Of a symptom, generally, but not always, accompanying a disease; indicative of the presence of a disease but not a necessary occurrence in conjunction with that disease.

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