Crossword clues for morbidity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Morbidity \Mor*bid"i*ty\, n.
The quality or state of being morbid.
Morbid quality; disease; sickness.
--C. Kingsley.Amount of disease; rate of sickness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1721, from morbid + -ity.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of being unhealthful, morbid, sometimes including the cause. 2 (context medicine English) The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected. 3 (context medicine countable English) An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness. 4 (context medicine countable English) Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery.
WordNet
n. 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]
the relative incidence of a particular disease
the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you [syn: unwholesomeness, morbidness] [ant: wholesomeness]
Usage examples of "morbidity".
Even Krogh, who had changed the worlds forever, reaped only a tiny royalty when someone faxed him- or herself across space and time, the morbidity filter one of many background processes running behind every collapsiter grid transaction.
It was by now taken as read that collecting figures on morbidity, say, or the incidence of crime or insanity, or the facts of nutrition, would comprise the empirical basis both for social policy on the part of government, and for social science in the universities.
Morbidity makes sorcerers lose their way and become trapped in the intricate, dark byways of the unknown.
There were nauseous musical instruments, stringed, brass, and wood-wind, on which St John and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodaemoniacal ghastliness.
He was, in all his gradations of morbidity between the frankly non-human and the degradedly human, establishing a sardonic linkage and evolution.
My scientific zeal had vanished amidst fear and loathing, and I felt nothing now but a wish to escape from this net of morbidity and unnatural revelation.
Ward, dazed by the flood of grotesque morbidities and unthinkably maddening suggestions that poured in upon him from every side, could only acquiesce.
He shook himself to banish such small-hour morbidities, and perched on the edge of his friend's mahogany desk.
Then there is a long line of particular fears and trouble-bearing expectations, such, for example, as ideas associated with certain articles of food, the dread of the east wind, the terrors of hot weather, the aches and pains associated with cold weather, the fear of catching cold if one sits in a draught, the coming of hay-fever upon the 14th of August in the middle of the day, and so on through a long list of fears, dreads, worriments, anxieties, anticipations, expectations, pessimisms, morbidities, and the whole ghostly train of fateful shapes which our fellow-men, and especially physicians, are ready to help us conjure up, an array worthy to rank with Bradley's 'unearthly ballet of bloodless categories.