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Morbid quality; disease; sickness.
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Amount of disease; rate of sickness.
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The percentage of a herd, flock etc., that becomes infected by particular disease.
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exhibiting illness or disease; also the percentage of illness or disease in a population.
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(1) A disease or the incidence of disease within a population; (2) Adverse effects caused by a treatment.
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the statistical rate at which people get sick from a specific cause.
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Disease or injury.
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The relative incidence of sickness and injury occurring among a given group of people. Contrast with mortality.
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Sickness, or a measure of how frequent sickness is.
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Condition describing patient who becomes sick, hospitalized.
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A term that refers to sickness. (See: morbidity tables (rates).)
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Sickness. A morbidity table shows the incidence of sickness.
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A term that usually refers to the suffering or misery that people experience who have an illness or are under treatment for an illness.
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The incidence and severity of sicknesses and accidents in a defined class or classes or persons.
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Illness; Departure from a state of well being, either physiologic or psychological.
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illness or physical harm
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the ratio of sick to well individuals in a community; the sick rate
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the condition of being diseased; unhealthy or unwholesome. Also, the rate of sickness.
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A general term referring to frequency of sickness. As an underwriting concept, it refers to the potential loss of health for a specific population, generally by age.
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any departure, subjective or objective, from a stage of physiological well-being. (Department of Health)
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(paraphrased from Fowler & Fowler) The quality of being unwholesome, sickly, or melancholy.
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the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
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Refers to the occurrence of diseases in a population.
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Frequency and severity of sicknesses and accidents in a well-defined class (or classes) of persons.
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the proportion of sickness in a locality
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ratio of diseased animals to the whole group.
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Ill health experienced at either an individual or population wide level (NCETA, 2002).
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A diseased state or symptom.
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Rate of disease incidence.
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(noun) the relative incidence of disease (circa 1721)
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The number of cases of a disease that exist at some given point in time; it may be expressed as the number of new cases (incidence) or as the total number of existing cases (prevalence).
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The relative incidence of a disease; a general state of unhealthiness.
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Illness, the rate of incidence of a disease. Compare with mortality.
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A deceased condtion or state - the incidence of a disease in a population.
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sickness, side effects and symptoms of a treatment or disease.
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percentage of population exhibiting injury or disease.
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Sickness. The term usually refers to the proportion of people with an illness.
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Result of disease.
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Illness caused by a particular injury or disease. The only measures of injury morbidity presented in Injury Surveillance on Line are numbers and rates of hospital separations associated with injuries or illnesses.
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Illness from a particular disease.
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The incidence of disease, or development of diseases in a population.
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Illness or disease. Morbidity rate is the number of illnesses or cases of disease in a population.
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The relative incidence of disability because of disease or physical impairment.
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A diseased condition or state, the incidence of a disease or all diseases in a population.
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Illness or disease. A morbidity rate for a certain illness is the number of people with that illness divided by the number of people in the population from which the illnesses were counted.
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The incidence and severity of sickness and accidents in a well-defined class or classes of persons.
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Symptoms of illness produced by disease or treatment.
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1. a condition where a patient is suffering from a disease. 2. in epidemiology, the measure of the prevalence or incidence of a disease in a population.
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The ratio of the number of sick animals to the total number of animals in the herd or flock.
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The incidence and severity of sicknesses and accidents in a well-defined class or classes of people.
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Incidence and severity of illness, injury, or disability in a defined population, usually expressed in rates of incidence or prevalence (e.g., 150 cases per 100,000 population).
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Morbidity usually means the relative incidence of illness in a population — for example, the number of people who have AIDS per 1,000 people in the population. See also mortality.
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Rate of an incidence of a disease.
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The relative incidence of disease. (H)
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Sickness, illness, or disease that does not result in death.
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The amount of sickness caused by a disease.
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the state of being ill or having a disease
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State of ill-health produced by a disease.
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an illness or abnormal condition or quality.
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Morbidity is a term used to describe the incidence rate of a disease as opposed to the mortality rate.
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Diseased condition or state. Mortality: Proportion of deaths to population or to a specific number of the population; death rate.
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the rate of illness; the ratio of sick-to-well in a population.
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The disease rate; the ratio of sick to well persons in a community.
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The relative frequency of illness or injury, or the illness or injury rate, in a community or population.
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1. Sickness, disability or failure of health. 2. The likelihood that a person of a given age will suffer an illness or disability. The premium that a person pays for health insurance is based in part on the morbidity rate for that person's age group.
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disease, as opposed to mortality (death).
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incidence of sickness in a given period
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the satate of being diseased; the number of sick persons or cases of a disease in relationship to specific population.
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having an illness or disease.
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disease or sickness
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The condition of being diseased. The morbidity rate is the percentage of people who are affected by a particular condition.
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Relative incidence of disease(s).
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A measure of the new cases of a disease in a population; the number of people who have a disease.
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illness or disease. page top
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The incidence or frequency of a disease among a population.
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Incidence or prevalence of a disease
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Relative incidence of disease and accidents in a well-defined class or classes of persons.
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Any departure, subjective or objective, from a state of physiological or psychological well-being.
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A sick or diseased state.
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The rate of disease or proportion of diseased persons in a community.
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Ill health. Within a population, the number of sick persons or cases of disease in a specified period of time.
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The occurrence of sickness.
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A disease or the incidence of disease within a population. Morbidity also refers to adverse effects caused by a treatment.
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The relative incidence of a particular disease. In common clinical usage, any disease state, including diagnosis and complications, is referred to as morbidity.
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The relative incidence of disease within a given group.
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The incidence of sickness and disability. Used as a guide in calculating Permanent Health Insurance premiums, in a similar way to the use of mortality statistics with life insurance.
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Sickness or illness; departure from a state of physical or mental well-being.
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The extent of illness, injury, or disability in a defined population. It is usually expressed in general or specific rates of incidence or prevalence.
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Measure of the frequency of an illness in relation to a specific population group.
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The frequency of disease, illness, injuries, and disabilities in a population.
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Incidence of diseases statistically stated in terms of per 100,000 or 1,000,000.
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the symptoms and/or disability resulting from a disease.
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Percentage affected by a disease.
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Illness; sickness; adverse symptoms and signs.
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an illness or abnormal condition; in statistics, the ratio of persons who are diseased to those who are well in a given population or community
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The rate at which people become sick.
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the WHO Expert Committee on Health Statistics noted in its sixth report (1959) that morbidity could be measured in terms of three units: (1) persons who were ill; (2) the illnesses (periods or spells of illness) that these persons experienced; and (3) the duration (days, weeks etc) of these illnesses.
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The condition of having a disease.
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the incidence of disease; the rate of sickness (as in a specified community or group)
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A disease, condition or state.
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Technical word for "sickness
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State of being diseased.
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Relates to becoming less healthy or sick resulting from a treatment or disease.
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Sickness, injury, or failure of health.
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