mortality
mor·tal·ity (môr tal′ə tē)
noun
- the condition of being mortal; esp., the nature of a human being, as having eventually to die
- death on a large scale, as from disease or war
- the proportion of deaths to the population of a region, nation, etc.; death rate
- the death rate from a particular disease
- the number or proportion that fail the high mortality of first-year students
- human beings collectively
- Obsolete death
Etymology: ME mortalite < OFr < L mortalitas < mortalis, mortal
Converse of object
- reduce: The target is to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters.
- decrease: This study was designed to assess whether prophylactic surgery decreased the long-term mortality for small aneurysms.
Adjective modifier
- maternal: The target is to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters.
- perinatal: Home births in England and Wales perinatal mortality according to intended place of delivery.
- infant: Infant mortality in the region has fallen from 44 per 1,000 live births in 1987 to 35 in 1993.
- all-cause: The outcome measure of interest was mortality, which was reported as all-cause mortality in most trials and sudden cardiac death in some trials.
- premature: The impact of HIV/AIDS is expected to more than double the burden of premature mortality by the year 2010.
- neonatal: Figure 2.2 shows the infant, perinatal and neonatal mortality in Lothian, year on year, since 1992.
Modifies a noun
- rate: The infant mortality rate had stood at 121 per 1,000 live births.
- ratio: Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio.
- statistic: Source: Mortality statistics 2002 [ Office for National Statistics.
Noun used with modifier
- all-cause: Main outcome measures: Coronary heart disease and all-cause mortality until 1999.
- infant: In 1901 infant mortality was 142 deaths per 1000 live births.
- childhood: Children can't fly: a program to prevent childhood mortality from window falls.
- cancer: West Hertfordshire has a colorectal cancer mortality rate in the under 75 year olds that is lower than the average for England.
- calf: There are no accurate figures on calf mortality rates available.
Preposition: in
- metropolis: Future topics arising from the ' Mortality in the metropolis ' project have also been identified.
Preposition: by
- two-third: Only one country is on track to reduce infant mortality by two-thirds by 2015.
- three-quarter: The target is to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters.
Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered to them; have seen in the folding of white bedspreads according to rule the starched pleats of a shroud.
Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.
Old mortality, the ruins of forgotten times.
I've heard the wolves scuffle, and said: So this Is man; soöwhat better conclusion is thereö The day will not follow night, and the heart Of man has a little dignity, but less patience Than a wolf's, and a duller sense that cannot Smell its own mortality.
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