morbidity
English
Etymology
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Recorded since 1656; from morbid, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin morbidus (“diseased”), from morbus (“disease”), from the root of mori (“to die”) or from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pound, wear away”).
Noun
morbidity (countable and uncountable, plural morbidities)
- The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause.
- The quality of being morbid; an attitude or state of mind marked by gloom.
- 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
- He taught him how to be superior to human foibles and how to give a godlike laugh at himself as a way of fending off morbidity. He did all the things for him that a woman is grateful for, except that Magnus is a man.
- (medicine) The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected.
- (medicine, countable) An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness.
- (medicine, countable) Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery.
- (demography, insurance) The sickness rate of a population.
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The quality of being unhealthful, morbid; morbidness
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The incidence of a disease as a rate
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An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness
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Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment
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