morbidity
noun
a morbid state or quality.
morbidities
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pluralof morbidity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Prof Mabbott said: "Living a lot longer, but suffering from the multiple morbidities that can accompany ageing, and in-and-out of hospital for another tissue transplant does not sound an attractive way to spend my retirement!"
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
It is linked to accelerated biological aging and various end-organ health issues, such as cardiovascular, cognitive and metabolic morbidities.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024
Scientists then started looking into underlying biological mechanisms that can cause long-term psychiatric morbidities.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2023
“In terms of very sick people with covid, it’s almost exclusively elderly and people with a lot of morbidities or who are immunosuppressed,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2023
A hundred diseases, all the fevers and contagions of human life, consumption, cancers, tumours and such morbidities, never enter the scheme of their life.
From The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
