morbidity

[ mawr-bid-i-tee ]

/ mɔrˈbɪd ɪ ti /

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noun

a morbid state or quality.

the proportion of sickness or of a specific disease in a geographical locality.

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Origin of morbidity

First recorded in 1715–25; morbid + -ity

Words nearby morbidity

morazán, morbid, morbid anatomy, morbid obesity, morbidezza, morbidity, morbidity rate, morbific, morbihan, morbilli, morbilliform

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Example sentences from the Web for morbidity

The cases share a kind of morbidity: A man, eighty, is pronounced dead after thirty minutes of CPR.
Real Life Lazarus: When Patients Rise From the Dead|Sandeep Jauhar|August 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I do agree that mortality isn't everything; morbidity (poor health) matters too.
Rethinking Thin|Megan McArdle|January 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Does he perhaps do so because they cannot in any way be made to square with his theory of morbidity?
A Problem in Modern Ethics|John Addington Symonds
It is worth while to mention that one name especially because the modern world in its morbidity has done it a strange injustice.
What's Wrong With The World|G.K. Chesterton

All the morbidity was gone, she was not thinking follies now, and neither of them was more than a good friend.
Claire|Leslie Burton Blades
President Tyler is a man of very unsuspicious nature, and there is no morbidity of feeling in him.
The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 1, July 1843|Various
Morbidity and immorality are as natural as health and purity.
The Crack of Doom|Robert Cromie

British Dictionary definitions for morbidity

morbidity

/ (mɔːˈbɪdɪtɪ) /

noun

the state of being morbid

Also: morbidity rate the relative incidence of a particular disease in a specific locality

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Medical definitions for morbidity

morbidity

[ môr-bĭd′ĭ-tē ]

n.

The quality of being morbid.

A diseased state.

The incidence or prevalence of a disease.

Morbidity rate.

morbidity

noun

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noun

Medical definitions for morbidity

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