Any "function" added to a watch, such as a minute repeater, countdown timer, stopwatch, altimeter, asthometer, pulsometer, calendar, moon phase indicator, split second chronograph, power reserve indicator, or alarm.

Any addition to a clock or watch other than the basic timekeeping functionality. Examples include stopwatches, perpetual calendars and tourbillons.

A watch with other functions besides basic timekeeping, which include chronographs, minute repeater, tourbillion, perpetual calendar, or split second chronograph.

A feature in addition to telling time, such as a calendar, moon phases, equinoxes, up and down dial, repeater, musical chimes, alarms, etc.

A watch with other functions besides timekeeping. For example, a chronograph is a watch complication. Other complications coveted by watch collectors include minute repeaters, tourbillons, perpetual calendars, and split-second chronographs.

Refers to functions (e. g., power reserve display, perpetual calendar) of a mechanical clock or watch apart from the time display. "Complications" make the design of the movement more complex.

Additional function with respect to the manual-winding basic movement for the display of hours, minutes and seconds. Today, certain features, such as automatic winding or date, are taken for granted, although they should be defined as complications. The main complications are moonphase (s.), power reserve (s.), GMT (s.), and full calendar (s.). Further functions are performed by the so-called great complications, such as split-second (s.) chronograph, perpetual calendar (s.), tourbilon (s.) device, and minute repeater (s.).

Any added feature or mechanism added to a watch. The most common complications are calendars, chronographs and alarms.

Includes any watch that tells more than the time and the date. The category is frequently split into 'grande' - including minute repeaters, tourbillons and combinations of the smaller, 'petite' complications such as power reserve, time zone and alarm functions. Chronographs also fall into this category, particularly those with enhanced functions such as the rattrapante (split-second).

In horology terms, a complication in a mechanical timepiece is any feature beyond that of a simple hours, minutes, and seconds movement. Common additions like day/date displays and chronographs are usually also omitted. The more complications in a watch, the more difficult it is to create, assemble and repair: typical date-display chronographs may have 250 parts, while a really complex watch may have a thousand or more parts.

an unexpected or unwanted effect of a treatment, pharmaceutical or other procedure

an unexpected medical or psychological event occurring after

the building of the conflict in plot as part of the rising action

an unplanned occurrence during a procedure that can impact negatively on the patients outcome

the second element of plot, the occurrence of an unexpected event that is the first step in the conflict.

An unwanted problem.

an action point that is introduced early in the film with no obvious effect or importance until later, when it becomes the unexpected source of difficulties or solutions to the protagonist's objective.

an incident which further complicates the plot.

is a complicating factor or occurrence as in the plot of a story or in the unfolding of events. Example: A complication in Othello is when Desdemona cannot show here handkerchief to Othello.

The second act of a three-act dramatic structure, in which "the plot thickens," peaking at its end.

any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease; "bed sores are a common complication in cases of paralysis"

A secondary disease or condition developing in the treatment course of a primary disease or condition; any type of unwanted result related to surgery. Treatment with the VASER System has been reported to result in low complication rates of complications often associated with other forms of lipoplasty, such as body contour irregularities, prolonged swelling, numbing, blood clotting / bruising / seromas, skin discoloration, and infection.

Kom-plick-A-shun] Undesirable effect of a disease or its treatment that can change the outcome and may require additional treatment.

(kom-plih-KAY-shun) In medicine, a medical problem that occurs during a disease, or after a procedure or treatment. The complication may be caused by the disease, procedure, or treatment or may be unrelated to them.

A detrimental patient condition that arises during the process of providing health care, regardless of the setting in which the care is provided. For instance, perforation, hemorrhage, bacteremia, and adverse reactions to medication (particularly in the elderly) are four complications of colonoscopy and its associated anesthesia and sedation. A complication may prolong an inpatient's length of stay or lead to other undesirable outcomes.

An undesired additional problem related to a disease process or to a treatment for a disease.

In medicine, an additional problem that arises following a procedure, treatment or illness and is secondary to it. A complication complicates the situation. See the entire definition of Complication

A medical condition that arises during a course of treatment and is expected to increase the length of stay by at least one day for most patients.

Condition that arises during the hospital stay that prolongs the length of stay at least one day in approximately 75 percent of the cases (as in complication and comorbidity ([CC]). Back to the top of the page

In medicine, an illness or condition that occurs while a patient has a disease. The complication is not a part of the disease, but may be a result of the disease or may be unrelated.

A condition, that develops after admission to the hospital, that affects the treatment received and/or the length of stay, and thus affects the DRG assignment.

Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms or new pathological changes, become widespread throughout the body or affect other organ systems. A medical treatment, such as drugs or surgery may produce adverse effects and/or produce new health problem(s) by itself.