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mor·bid·i·ty

(môr-bĭd′ĭ-tē)

n. pl. mor·bid·i·ties

1. The quality of being morbid; morbidness.

2. The rate of incidence of a disease.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

morbidity

(mɔːˈbɪdɪtɪ)

1. the state of being morbid

2. (Pathology) Also: morbidity rate the relative incidence of a particular disease in a specific locality

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

mor•bid•i•ty

(mɔrˈbɪd ɪ ti)

n.

1. a morbid state or quality.

2. the proportion of a specific disease in a geographical locality.

[1715–25]

morbidity

the state or quality of being excessively gloomy. — morbid, adj.

morbidity

[mɔːˈbɪdɪtɪ] N & N

1. (= perverseness) → morbosidad f, lo malsano

2. (Med) → morbosidad f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

morbidity

(of idea, thought, jealousy, curiosity etc) → Krankhaftigkeit f; (of interest, attitude) → Unnatürlichkeit f; (of sense of humour, talk) → Düsterkeit f; (of novel, music) → Morbidität f; (of person) → Trübsinn m; (of poet etc) → Hang m → zu düsteren Gedanken, Morbidität f; (= gloominess) → Morbidität f

(Med) → Morbidität f; (of growth) → Krankhaftigkeit f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

mor·bid·i·ty

n. morbidez, morbosidad, enfermedad.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

morbidity

n morbilidad f

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He sees thousands of Mrs MacNabs, in thousands of houses, dropping their little drop of morbidity in the tea-cups of their friends; he sees--"

For the whole air was dense with the morbidity of blackmail, which is the most morbid of human things, because it is a crime concealing a crime; a black plaster on a blacker wound.

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He forgot for the moment his maxim of life to follow his inclinations with due regard for the policeman round the corner; or, if he acted in accordance with it, there must have been some strange morbidity in his nature which made him take a grim pleasure in self-torture.

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I don't say in your case, but in too many cases that attitude leads to morbidity, discontent, and Socialism."

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For what is morbidity but a mood of emotion or a mode of thought that one cannot express?

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Quinton was a genius, if a morbid one; and even his morbidity appeared more in his life than in his work.

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Data released by the PHO on Tuesday showed that as of Morbidity Week 34, Kabankalan City, which has the highest cases at 972, has reported six deaths followed by Himamaylan City, with five.

Dengue deaths in NegOcc rise to 49

Keywords: General health questionnaire, Head and neck tumors, Psychiatric morbidity.

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The population-based incidence of severe acute maternal morbidity occurring between 22 weeks of gestation and 42 days post partum in the 2012-2013 French multicenter study was 6.2% among 3,202 twin pregnancies and 1.3% among 179,107 singleton pregnancies, Hugo Madar, MD, MPH, of Bordeaux (France) University Hospital, and colleagues reported on behalf of the EPIMOMS (Epidemiologie de la Morbidite Maternelle Severe) study group.

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Severe maternal morbidity is a blanket term for 18 indicators of life-threatening maternal conditions associated with childbirth, including kidney failure, fluid in the lungs, and heart failure.

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Maternal morbidity associated with caesarean are infection, haemorrhage, thromboembolism, anaesthetic complications, bladder and bowel injury, hysterectomy, rehospitalisation for wound infections, longer initial hospital stays, risk of uterine rupture, abnormal placental implantation in subsequent pregnancy.

MATERNAL OUTCOME IN PRIMARY CAESAREAN SECTION AND SECONDARY CAESAREAN SECTION--A PROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY

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Noun	1.	morbidity - the relative incidence of a particular disease incidence, relative incidence - the relative frequency of occurrence of something
	2.	morbidity - an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind; "his fear of being alone verges on morbidity" morbidness cognitive state, state of mind - the state of a person's cognitive processes
	3.	morbidity - the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you unwholesomeness, morbidness quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare noisomeness, noxiousness, harmfulness - the quality of being noxious perniciousness, toxicity - grave harmfulness or deadliness deadliness, lethality - the quality of being deadly jejunity, jejuneness - quality of lacking nutritive value putrescence, rottenness - the quality of rotting and becoming putrid unhealthfulness - the quality of promoting poor health