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Morbidity - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Affection, Affliction, Ailment, Allergy, Atrophy, Blight, Cachexia, Complaint, Complication, Condition, Defect, Deformity |
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In epidemiology, the morbidity rate is a ratio that measures the incidence and prevalence of a specific disease. Within the framework of a given time period (typically, but not necessarily, one year) it compares the number of people who are afflicted with that disease per unit of population. It is usually expressed as a number of people afflicted per 1,000, 10,000, or 100,000 people.
Compare mortality rate, which compares the number of people who die from a disease to the number who have it.
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Example Usage of Morbidity |
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okamihanyoukida: Hopes to find Fatal Frame 2 today. I love the Morbidity of the games. Almost beat Fatal Frame but friend's PS2 crapped out at end.
Kida~ |
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sanojzurc: @quarksome Watch Hostel 2 and the Morbidity isn't alone. Sensuality plus a lot of bloodbath, literally! |
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quarksome: just watched Hostel. I love that intense Morbidity. :> |
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