Dictionary

sequela en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /sɪˈkwɛlə/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /-ˈkwɛ-/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /sɪˈkwiːlə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Received-Pronunciation) audio
• /-ˈkwi-/ (General-American)
• /sɪˈkwiːliː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /sɪˈkwɛliː/ (General-American)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sequēla (“aftermath, sequel; consequence, result”), from sequor (“to follow; to come or go after, pursue”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”)) + -ēla (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs). Doublet of sequel. The plural form is a learned borrowing from Latin sequēlae.

Meanings

1. Chiefly in the plural: a condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one, being either partly or wholly caused by it, or made possible by it.
   • Although both acute PID and STIs may remain asymptomatic, some of their shared long-term sequelae are tubal factor infertility (TFI), salpingitis, and adhesions and scarring of the fallopian tubes, ovaries, and surrounding peritoneal tissue. These sequelae have been further identified as factors potentially associated with EOC risk. 2023 December 11, Elizaveta Skarga, Heljä-Marja Surcel, Rudolf Kaaks, Tim Waterboer, Renée T Fortner, “Sexually Transmitted Infections and Risk of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Results From the Finnish Maternity Cohort”, in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, volume 228, number 11, →DOI, pages 1621–1629:
   • ‘Ay, ay,’ said Stephen testily, ‘it is showy enough to look at, no doubt, but these are only the superficial sequelae. There is no essential lesion.’ 1973, Patrick O’Brian, chapter 4, in H.M.S. Surprise, London: HarperCollinsPublishers for The Book People, →ISBN, page 69:
   • Complications: haematoma formation is a dangerous sequela of this operation, and careful drainage with polythene tubing was carried out. 1970, J[ames] G[raham] Ballard, “Princess Margaret’s Face Lift”, in The Atrocity Exhibition, revised edition, London: Flamingo, HarperCollinsPublishers, published 2001, →ISBN, page 178:
2. (broadly, formal) That which follows; a consequence, an effect.
   • Initially he dosed himself [with opium] to quell neuralgia associated with 'gout' and nervous shooting pains in the limb and head, unable to bear the agonies these complaints produced on what Humphry Davy would call his 'excessive sensibility'. Self-dosing brought emotional and physical sequelae of its own. 2003, Roy Porter, “Dependent Bodies”, in Flesh in the Age of Reason, London: Allen Lane, Penguin Group, →ISBN, part IV (The Science of Man for a New Society), page 407:
3. (broadly, formal, rare) People who adhere to the opinions or teachings of another; followers.

Forms

Coordinates

comorbidity · complication

Relateds

comorbidity · sequel · sequence · complication

Translations (25)

sv sekvele (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · de Folgezustand (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · sv svit (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · bg последица (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · ko 후유증 (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · ms sekuela (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · nb sekvele (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · de Folgeerscheinung (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · it sequela (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · pl następstwo (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · cmn 後遺症 /后遗症 (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · es secuela (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · pt sequela (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · ja 後遺症 (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · hy հետեւանք (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · hy բարդացում (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · vi di chứng (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · sv följdsjukdom (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · hu szövődmény (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · fi jälkitauti (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · sv följdtillstånd (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · ru после́дствие (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · nl sekwel (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · ru осложне́ние (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one) · fr séquelle (condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one)