CONCURRENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does concurrent mean? 

• CONCURRENT (adjective)
  The adjective CONCURRENT has 1 sense:

1. occurring or operating at the same time

  Familiarity information: CONCURRENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCURRENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Occurring or operating at the same time

Synonyms:

co-occurrent; coincident; coincidental; coinciding; concurrent; cooccurring; simultaneous

Context example:

a series of coincident events

Similar:

synchronal; synchronic; synchronous (occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase)

Derivation:

concur (happen simultaneously)

concurrence (the temporal property of two things happening at the same time)

 Context examples 

The amount diminishes due to 2 concurrent processes: radioactive decay, and clearance from the system.

(Effective Half-life, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutagenic potential of these non-intercalating DNA topoisomerase II inhibitors is believed to be increased with concurrent use of asparaginase or granulocyte colony-stimulating factor.

(Epipodophyllotoxin-Related Myelodysplastic Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

EXAMPLE(S): concurrent, historical, pre/post (patient owned control)

(Interventional Study Protocol Version Control Concurrency Type Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Common concurrent symptoms of at least six months duration include impairment of memory or concentration, diffuse pain, sore throat, tender lymph nodes, headaches of a new type, pattern, or severity, and nonrestorative sleep.

(Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Research is currently underway to manipulate this relationship by altering the host environment in ways that silence or inhibit pro-survival signals concurrent with standard therapies.

(Cell Microenvironment, NCI Thesaurus)

FJ5002 inhibits telomerase by interfering with holoenzyme assembly and telomere interaction, thus leading to replication-dependent shortening of telomeres with a concurrent increase in aneuploid metaphases and apoptotic cells.

(FJ5002, NCI Thesaurus)

An acute leukemia of ambiguous lineage characterized by blasts which coexpress myeloid and T or B lineage antigens or concurrent B and T lineage antigens.

(Acute Biphenotypic Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

Surgical removal of uterus as a concurrent procedure after a cesarean delivery.

(Cesarean Hysterectomy, NCI Thesaurus)

Phenelzine sulfate irreversibly binds to MAO, thereby blocking the oxidative deamination of monoamines resulting in an increased concentration of biogenic amines and a concurrent decrease in catabolism of monoamine neurotransmitters, norepinephrine and serotonin, in the brain.

(Phenelzine Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus)

According to WHO causality assessment criteria of suspected adverse reactions it is applicable to a clinical event, including laboratory test abnormality, occurring in a plausible time relationship to medical intervention, and which cannot be explained by concurrent disease or other interventions.

(Definitely Related to Intervention, NCI Thesaurus)