morbiditynoun [ U ]
uk/mɔːˈbɪd.ə.ti//mɔːrˈbɪd.ə.t̬i/specialized medical the morbidity of a disease is how many people have it in a particular population:
morbidity rates
morbidity statistics
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Disease & illness - general words
- autoimmune disease
- bilharzia
- bluetongue
- bout
- CFS
- CGD
- complaint
- dose
- dreaded lurgy
- endemic
- industrial disease
- lay
- life-threatening
- lurgy
- pandemic
- pinkeye
- strangulated
- syndrome
- upset
- wasting disease
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the fact of being too interested in unpleasant subjects, especially death:
She remembered her dead brother without morbidity.
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Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- in extremis
- loss
- mortality
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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