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MORBIDITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you
Synonyms:
morbidity; morbidness; unwholesomeness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("morbidity" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "morbidity"):
harmfulness; noisomeness; noxiousness (the quality of being noxious)
perniciousness; toxicity (grave harmfulness or deadliness)
deadliness; lethality (the quality of being deadly)
putrescence; rottenness (the quality of rotting and becoming putrid)
unhealthfulness (the quality of promoting poor health)
Derivation:
morbid (caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind
Example:
his fear of being alone verges on morbidity
Synonyms:
morbidity; morbidness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("morbidity" is a kind of...):
cognitive state; state of mind (the state of a person's cognitive processes)
Derivation:
morbid (suggesting an unhealthy mental state)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The relative incidence of a particular disease
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("morbidity" is a kind of...):
incidence; relative incidence (the relative frequency of occurrence of something)
Context examples:
NIH Emphasis Area — The term "prevention" refers to prophylactic and preventative efforts to achieve a significant reduction in cancer incidence, cancer mortality, and cancer morbidity.
(Cancer Prevention, Primary, NCI Thesaurus)
The diagnosis of intrauterine growth restriction carries an increased risk of perinatal morbidity and mortality.
(Intrauterine Growth Restriction, NCI Thesaurus)
Observational studies on the interactive effects of diet, social support, stress management, and exercise in the promotion of health and prevention of morbidity and mortality are included here.
(Health Promotion (Salutogenesis), NCI Thesaurus)
An RNA virus which has been shown to be the major etiologic agent of non-A non-B hepatitis and causes substantial morbidity and mortality worldwide; also associated with cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.
(hepatitis C virus, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
The Clinical Modifications, produced by the United States Dept. of Health and Human Services, are larger extensions used for morbidity and general epidemiological purposes, primarily in the U.S.
(International Classification of Diseases, NCI Thesaurus)
Atypical Regeneration consists of reactive cellular proliferation, abnormal reproduction, or renewal of cells and tissues that have been damaged or destroyed due to injury, morbidity, or ordinary life processes and is characterized by nuclear/cytoplasmic atypia.
(Atypical Regeneration, NCI Thesaurus)
The Surveillance Research Program (SRP) directs a program of cancer surveillance involving the collection and analysis of pertinent data in order to answer key questions about cancer incidence, morbidity, mortality, and cancer-related health status in diverse regions and in general and specific populations of the U.S. defined by sociodemographic measures.
(Cancer Surveillance Research Program, NCI Thesaurus)
A mental disorder caused by intrinsic disease which is characterized by persistent alterations in mood that are directly attributable to the disease itself rather than a response to knowledge of the disease or other co-morbidity.
(Organic Affective Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
The goal of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center is to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and therapy of cancer through discovery, evaluation, and dissemination; to stimulate and support innovative, coordinated interdisciplinary clinical research on cancer diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control; to develop clinical applications of discovery and make these available to northern Ohio residents as quickly as possible through the integrated efforts of the major health systems in the region; to develop cancer prevention and control activities that build on the expertise of the Center and result in a reduction of cancer morbidity and mortality in the northern Ohio region and throughout the nation.
(Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
Morbidity also refers to adverse effects caused by a treatment.
(Morbidity, NCI Dictionary)
