morbidity

IPA: mɔrbˈɪdʌti

The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause.
The quality of being morbid; an attitude or state of mind marked by gloom.
(medicine) The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected.
(medicine, countable) An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness.
(medicine, countable) Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery.
(demography, insurance) The sickness rate of a population.

Examples of "morbidity" in Sentences

Befitting her age, Gardam more than teases at infirmity and death, but the prospect of morbidity is never morbid.
Otto S, Mahner B, Kadow I, et al. General non-specific morbidity is reduced after vaccination within the third month of life — the Greifswald study.
However, even after controlling for such behavior and other health-related factors, the improvements in morbidity and mortality rates exceeded expectations.
And yet, Justice Kennedy suggests, and many here seem to agree, that future problematic psychological morbidity is sufficient reason to ban a certain physical procedure which is often safer for the patient.
The stability of a child's early life has profound effects on physical and mental health, and unstable parent-child relationships, as well as abuse, can lead to behavioral disorders and increased mortality and morbidity from a wide variety of common diseases later in life.