prevalence
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prevalence (countable and uncountable; plural prevalences)
- The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor.
- (epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in the given statistical population at a given time.
- (epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in the given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in the population.
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- prevalence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- prevalence in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[edit] Czech
[edit] Noun
prevalence f.
- prevalence (epidemiology)
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- výskyt m.
