morbidity
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(noun) the relative incidence of a particular disease |
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Related Words: incidence, relative incidence |
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(noun) the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year |
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Synonyms: deathrate, mortality, mortality rate |
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Related Words: infant deathrate, infant mortality, infant mortality rate, rate |
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(noun) the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you |
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Synonyms: morbidness, unwholesomeness |
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Related Words: deadliness, harmfulness, jejuneness, jejunity, lethality, noisomeness, noxiousness, perniciousness, putrescence, quality, rottenness, toxicity, unhealthfulness |
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