morbidity
morbidity
Definition
mor·bid·ity (môr bid′ə tē)
noun pl. -·ties
- state, quality, or instance of being morbid
- the rate of disease or proportion of diseased persons in a given locality, nation, etc.
morbidity
Usage Examples
Preposition: among
- adult: Psychiatric morbidity among adults living in private households, 2000.
Converse of object
- associate: Early surgery may therefore reduce the morbidity associated with frequent seizures through the teenage years.
- reduce: Early surgery may therefore reduce the morbidity associated with frequent seizures through the teenage years.
- decrease: However there is no proof that routine intubation of all very preterm babies leads to decreased morbidity.
- suffer: Many of the surviving preterm infants suffer serious morbidity.
- compare: Despite the increasing prevalence of obesity, its impact on morbidity compared with other health risks is unclear.
- relate: The morbidity related to the procedure was 10 % .
Adjective modifier
- psychiatric: These data were compared with data from the second national survey of psychiatric morbidity in adults living at home.
- postoperative: Only one trial was designed to measure postoperative morbidity.
- perinatal: The perinatal morbidity was significantly higher in the GM group.
- neonatal: Further benefits from steroids in pre-term delivery come from effects on forms of neonatal morbidity.
- perioperative: Overall benefit is only achieved when perioperative morbidity and mortality is less than 3 % .
- post-operative: There were no post-operative deaths in either group and the post-operative morbidity and hospital stay were comparable.
Modifies a noun
- statistic: The last GP morbidity statistics figures showed an 85 per cent rise in serious illness in children in ten years.
- rate: This is to ensure they are keeping inline with current morbidity rates.
- outcome: Few were conducted with men alone, and most focused on behavioral and social psychological rather than morbidity outcomes.
Noun used with modifier
- Co: Together with patient history and potential underlying co morbidity factors this may lead to a provisional diagnosis of PG.
- malaria: Children between 0 to five and pregnant women are population groups at highest risk for malaria morbidity and mortality.
- asthma: Reducing asthma morbidity in the community: the effect of a targeted nurse-run asthma clinic in an English general practice.
- childhood: To achieve the lowest possible childhood death rate and to minimize childhood morbidity from sickle cell disorders.
