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COEXISTENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coexistence mean? 

COEXISTENCE (noun)
  The noun COEXISTENCE has 1 sense:

1. existing peacefully togetherplay

  Familiarity information: COEXISTENCE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COEXISTENCE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Existing peacefully together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("coexistence" is a kind of...):

being; beingness; existence; face of the earth (the state or fact of existing)

Derivation:

coexist (coexist peacefully, as of nations)

coexistent (existing at the same time)


 Context examples 


Coexistence of Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the same anatomic site.

(Composite lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The coexistence of two or more disease processes.

(Comorbidity, NCI Thesaurus)

The coexistence of a chronic inflammatory process with a superimposed polymorphonuclear neutrophilic infiltration.

(Chronic Active Inflammation, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare congenital heart anomaly in which there is coexistence of tetralogy of Fallot and complete atrioventricular septal defect.

(Complete Atrioventricular Septal Defect with Tetralogy of Fallot, NCI Thesaurus)



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