morbidity
IPA: mɔrbˈɪdʌti
noun
- 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.
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Examples of "morbidity" in Sentences
- The morbidity rate would be horrifying.
- What is the morbidity of vacuum tumescence devices
- These are all proximate causes of morbidity in the host.
- Exposure is related to sensitization and asthma morbidity.
- The drug therefore prevents both morbidity and transmission.
- At the moment, there is just a redirect to a short article on morbidity.
- 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.
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