mortality
IPA: mɔrtˈæɫʌti
noun
- The state or quality of being mortal.
- The state of being susceptible to death.
- (archaic) The quality of being punishable by death.
- (archaic) The quality of causing death.
- The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.
- Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).
- (biology, ecology, demography, insurance) The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.
- (figuratively) Death.
- (figuratively, archaic) Mortals collectively.
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Examples of "mortality" in Sentences
- ‘The one human flaw, mortality, is the one thing that makes you whole.’
- Living standards are now independent of population levels, so any reduction in mortality is an unalloyed blessing.
- The assertion of a 1% reduction in mortality is not necessarily orthogonal to a 41-91% reduction in hospitalizations.
- Generalized weakness, malaise, loss of coordination and respiratory arrest may be present; mortality is close to 50percent in some studies.
- Unfortunately, there are a lot of miscarriages, and infant-maternal mortality is uncomfortably high (certainly higher than one would expect in the American heartland).
- "Socioeconomic disparity in mortality is pervasive, and it continues to increase," said Ahmedin Jemal, an epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society who lead the study.
- Such comparisons have shown a dramatic difference in mortality between these two groups: study after study has found that people who get a flu shot in the fall are about half as likely to die that winter — from any cause — as people who do not.
- I realize the title of my report sounds bizarre, but before you label me insane, consider the following well-established fact -- The Telemark Polyp Study demonstrated a 57% increase in mortality among patients screened for colon cancer vis-à-vis unscreened controls.
- For example, while he allows that, in mortality rates, the inner-city men at age 68 to 70 resembled the Terman and Harvard cohorts at 78 to 80, he says that most of the difference can be explained by less education, more obesity, and greater abuse of alcohol and cigarettes.
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