Hypertext Webster Gateway: "morbidity"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Morbidity \Mor*bid"i*ty\, n.
1. The quality or state of being morbid.
2. Morbid quality; disease; sickness. --C. Kingsley.
3. Amount of disease; sick rate.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
morbidity
n 1: the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that
area; expressed per 1000 per year [syn: {deathrate}, {death
rate}, {mortality}, {mortality rate}, {fatality rate}]
2: the relative incidence of a particular disease
3: the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you
[syn: {unwholesomeness}, {morbidness}] [ant: {wholesomeness}]
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