Morbidity Definition

môr-bĭdĭ-tē
noun
State, quality, or instance of being morbid.
Webster's New World
The rate of disease or proportion of diseased persons in a given locality, nation, etc.
Webster's New World
(medicine, countable) Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery.
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Noun

Singular:
morbidity
Plural:
morbidities

Origin of Morbidity

  • Recorded since 1656; from morbid, from Latin morbidus (“diseased"), from morbus (“disease"), from the root of mori (“to die") or from a Proto-Indo-European base mor "to rub, pound, wear away".

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