GC: n

S: WHO – http://www.who.int/gho/ncd/mortality_morbidity/en/ (last access: 7 June 2015); NIH – https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/morbidity (last access: 7 October 2024).

N: 1. 1721, from morbid (1650s, “of the nature of a disease, indicative of a disease,” from Latin morbidus “diseased,” from morbus “sickness, disease, ailment, illness,” from root of mori “to die) + -ity (suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives, meaning “condition or quality of being _,” from Middle English -ite, from Old French -ité and directly from Latin -itatem (nominative -itas), suffix denoting state or condition, composed of connective -i- + -tas (see -ty (2)).

2. A diseased state or symptom <lumbar puncture, if improperly performed, may be followed by a significant morbidity—Journal of the American Medical Association>
The incidence of disease : the rate of sickness (as in a specified community or group) <while TB mortality has declined fairly steadily, morbidity has been rising—Time>—compare mortality 2.

3. Epidemiology; Demography; Statistical Surveys: morbidity, morbility.

• The number of persons in a given population who are affected by a disease.
• Morbility due to malaria decreased in Sullan in 1992.
• Morbidity statistics show the amount of disease there is in the population – the number of people living with (rather than dying from) heart disease.

S: 1. Etymonline – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=morbidity&searchmode=none (last access: 7 June 2015). 2. MW – http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/morbidity (last access: 7 June 2015). 3. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=morbidity&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 7 October 2024).

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CR: mortality