something that introduces, usually unexpectedly, some difficulty, problem, change, etc.: Because of the complications involved in traveling during the strike, we decided to postpone our trip.
Pathology. a concurrent disease, accident, or adverse reaction that aggravates the original disease.
the act of forming a unified idea or impression from a number of sense data, memories, etc.
Origin of complication
1605–15; <Late Latin complicātīon- (stem of complicātiō), equivalent to complicāt(us) (see complicate) + -īon--ion
Abe Shinzo, Japan’s longest-serving and most consequential prime minister in decades, has resigned from his post over health complications.
Abe Shinzo, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, steps down over health concerns|Alex Ward|August 28, 2020|Vox
Now the University of Washington Medical Center was citing multiple requests from hospitalists for training in bedside cardiac ultrasound so that they could monitor their covid-19 patients for heart failure, a dangerous complication.
Training clinicians to spot heart failure in covid-19 patients|Tate Ryan-Mosley|August 19, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Initial research suggests that women who have Covid-19 at the time of delivery may experience complications, and that fetuses, too, might be at risk of complications even after delivery.
The data on Covid-19 and pregnancy is woefully incomplete|Annalisa Merelli|August 6, 2020|Quartz
As it’s become clear that excessive clotting can be a complication of a serious coronavirus infection, there’s been debate over how best to manage the blockages.
Preventing dangerous blood clots from COVID-19 is proving tricky|Aimee Cunningham|June 23, 2020|Science News
It is serious and can cause fatal complications, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Olympian Allyson Felix Breaks Usain Bolt's Record—10 Months After Emergency C-Section|Health|October 3, 2019|Health
Government policy, especially foreign policy, is rife with nuance and complication.
Susan Rice’s Personality 'Disorder'|Lloyd Grove|December 12, 2012|DAILY BEAST
I suspect that barring a complication, Mr. Bush will be up and perhaps leaping, with help, from planes once again.
Bob Dole & George H.W. Bush Hospitalized: How to Interpret Illness of Public Figures|Kent Sepkowitz|November 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The Daily Pic: Andrea Longacre-White piles complexity on complication.
Digital Dazzle||July 16, 2012|DAILY BEAST
This procedure, though generally safe, comes with a small risk of complication, including loss of the fetus.
New Finding That Testing Could Identify Defects in Fetuses Is a Genetics Baby Step|Kent Sepkowitz|June 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST
“I think Bill may be too big a complication,” Plouffe quotes his boss as saying.
Hillary Finally Doffs Her Burqa|Tina Brown|October 30, 2009|DAILY BEAST
It was not necessary for him to have recourse to musical artifice and complication to conceal poverty of invention.
Great Musical Composers|George T. Ferris
It'll save a lot of complication if they're put out of the way.
Sonia Between two Worlds|Stephen McKenna
At the treasury there was a complication of jealousies and quarrels.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay
The plot is a complex one; it has an ebb and flow, a complication and a resolution, to use technical terms.
How to Write a Novel|Anonymous
A humorous comparison should not be entirely fanciful, and without basis; otherwise we should have no complication.
History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2)|Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
British Dictionary definitions for complication
complication
/ (ˌkɒmplɪˈkeɪʃən) /
noun
a condition, event, etc, that is complex or confused
the act or process of complicating
a situation, event, or condition that complicates or frustratesher coming was a serious complication
a disease or disorder arising as a consequence of another disease
A pathological process or event occurring during a disease that is not an essential part of the disease; it may result from the disease or from independent causes.