Dictionary Definition
morbidity
Noun
1 the ratio of deaths in an area to the
population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year [syn: deathrate, death rate,
mortality, mortality
rate, fatality
rate]
2 the relative incidence of a particular
disease
3 the quality of being unhealthful and generally
bad for you [syn: unwholesomeness,
morbidness] [ant:
wholesomeness]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The ratio of deaths to the population; expressed in 1000 per year; death rate.
- The quality of being unhealthful, morbid; morbidness.
- 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.
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
The ratio of deaths to the population; expressed
in 1000 per year; death rate
- Finnish: kuolleisuus
The quality of being unhealthful, morbid;
morbidness
- Finnish: sairaalloisuus
The incidence of a disease
An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single
symptom of that illness
See also
Extensive Definition
In medicine, epidemiology and actuarial
science, the term morbidity can refer to
- the state of being diseased (from Latin morbidus: sick, unhealthy),
- the degree or severity of a disease,
- the prevalence of a disease: the total number of cases in a particular population at a particular point in time,
- the incidence of a disease: the number of new cases in a particular population during a particular time interval.
- disability irrespective of cause (e.g., disability caused by accidents).
The term morbidity rate can refer either to the
incidence rate or to the prevalence rate of a disease. Compare this
with the mortality
rate of a condition, which is the number of people dying during
a given time interval, divided by the total number of people in the
population. Morbidity is often measured by ICU
scoring systems.
See also
- Comorbidity
- Morbidity & Mortality about the medical conference
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report a publication
morbidity in German: Morbidität
morbidity in Spanish: Morbilidad
morbidity in French: Taux de morbidité
morbidity in Indonesian: Morbiditas
morbidity in Italian: Morbosità (medicina)
morbidity in Serbian: Морбидитет
morbidity in Swedish: Morbiditet
morbidity in Chinese: 发病率
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abnormality, acute disease,
affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease,
allergy, atrophy, bacterial disease,
birth defect, blight,
cachexia, cachexy, cardiovascular disease,
chronic disease, chronic ill health, circulatory disease, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect,
debilitation,
debility, decrepitude, defect, deficiency disease,
deformity,
degenerative disease, delicacy, delicate health,
disability, disease, disorder, distemper, endemic, endemic disease,
endocrine disease, enervation, epidemic disease,
exhaustion, feebleness, fragility, frailty, functional disease,
fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, handicap, healthlessness,
hereditary disease, hypochondria, hypochondriasis,
iatrogenic disease, ill health, illness, indisposition, infectious
disease, infirmity,
invalidism, invalidity, languishing, languishment, malady, malaise, morbidness, morbus, muscular disease,
neurological disease, nutritional disease, occupational disease,
organic disease, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, peakedness, plant disease,
poor health, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, respiratory
disease, rockiness,
secondary disease, seediness, sickishness, sickliness, sickness, signs, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, the pip, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwholesomeness,
urogenital disease, valetudinarianism,
virus disease, wasting,
wasting disease, weakliness, worm
disease