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noun (morbidities, -)
- The ratio of deaths to the population; expressed in 1000 per year; death rate.
- The quality of being unhealthful, morbid; morbidness.
- (medicine) The incidence of a disease.
- (medicine, countable) An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness.
- (medicine, countable) Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery.
Translations: Etymology: From morbid, from morbidus diseased, from morbus disease, from mori to die.
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