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morbidity Definition

mor·bid·ity (môr bidə tē)

noun pl. -·ties

  1. state, quality, or instance of being morbid
  2. 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.

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