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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mortality
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
infant mortality rate
infant mortality (=the number of infants who die)
▪ The infant mortality rate doubled during the 1990s.
the death/mortality rate
▪ The death rate among the homeless is three times higher than the rest of the population.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adult
▪ But it is not clear how adult mortality rates could affect the optimal timing of maturity.
▪ Life-history theory could readily explain dwarfing if juvenile, but not adult, male mortality were large.
▪ Early maturity also reduces male juvenile mortality and thus opposes adult mortality.
▪ In spite of this, however, differences in infant and adult mortality rates between social classes have widened.
▪ The most serious gap is for adult mortality.
cardiovascular
▪ The trend in cardiovascular mortality with external conjugate was abolished by allowing for head circumference.
early
▪ Fetal, infant and early childhood mortality and maternity related deaths to women of reproductive age are the classes of mortality examined.
▪ The husband's educational level also influences early childhood mortality.
▪ In contrast patients subjected to sclerotherapy showed no early mortality but a steady decline in survival in the first two years.
excess
▪ The results indicated that current smokers showed excess mortality when compared with non-smokers.
▪ The excess mortality was attributed to coal mining and the extensive use of soft coal in the mining areas.
▪ The authors thus concluded that the excess mortality noted for gastric cancer was probably related to socioeconomic class rather than coal mining.
▪ In a study of 23232 miners, excess mortality was noted for benign respiratory conditions, accidents, and gastric cancer.
▪ The average excess mortality for gastric cancer among coal miners was 126 per million, with a range of 65-226 per million.
▪ However, because deprivation is also associated with excess mortality some of this is already picked up by including standardised mortality ratio.
fetal
▪ In two developing countries, the lowest frequency of fetal mortality is at births above second but below sixth or seventh order.
▪ Most studies have found no increase in fetal mortality when blood glucose levels are controlled in this way.
high
▪ Conclusions - Children classified as unoccupied are almost certainly living in poverty as well as experiencing relatively high risks of mortality.
▪ Of all groups, single males have the highest mortality rate-and suicide is increasingly the way they die.
▪ Consequently, to combat this high mortality rate large numbers of offspring are necessary.
▪ These men also had the highest standardised mortality ratio for all causes of death.
▪ With high mortality rates even a large family size only just replaces the parents.
▪ The high mortality rates could simply be seen as nature playing its part in curbing hare numbers.
▪ Introduction A recent Medical Research Council trial shows higher cancer mortality in elderly hypertensive men treated with atenolol.
▪ As she more than once said, our letters over the years seemed to reveal a shockingly high mortality among our friends.
increased
▪ The reduction was not associated with increased mortality and was reversible if plants were returned to 20°C.
▪ In large studies there is no evidence of increased mortality when either class of agent was used, but what about morbidity?
▪ Suppose we think of conditions which lead to impaired reproduction or increased likelihood of mortality.
infant
▪ Schooling is the route to lowering infant mortality.
▪ A final factor that affects the number of children desired by developing world couples is infant mortality.
▪ Amongthe poorest 25 % of the rural population, infant mortality is 3.5 times higher than among city dwellers.
▪ Declines in infant mortality may have contributed indirectly to declining fertility, though evidence on the matter is inconclusive.
▪ Anhui officials produced impressive statistics for the decline in infant mortality in the county visited.
▪ The correlation between infant mortality and fertility has not been well documented.
▪ Tampa General Hospital created a subsidiary to combat infant mortality.
▪ In a region where infant mortality is high, the argument struck a responsive chord.
low
▪ For these categories hospital 1 had the lowest perinatal mortality rates among the consultant units after adjustment for risk factors.
▪ Firstly people are living longer, there is low infant mortality, but the average age of the population is rising as well.
▪ Although restorative proctocolectomy is associated with a low mortality the morbidity is considerable.
▪ While inner London has the lowest mortality rate of any region in the country, not all its hospitals are top performers.
▪ Adult females experienced much lower mortality rates whereas adult males searching for females had even higher mortality rates.
▪ If these data were combined with clinical data then large subgroups with low mortality could be identified.
▪ The good news is that people with lower blood pressures have lower mortality rates than those who suffer from hypertension.
male
▪ Life-history theory could readily explain dwarfing if juvenile, but not adult, male mortality were large.
▪ Early maturity also reduces male juvenile mortality and thus opposes adult mortality.
▪ From birth onwards, male mortality rates exceeded those of females.
▪ In Nephila, increased male mortality during the adult search phase is almost exactly counteracted by reduction in juvenile male growth stages.
▪ Excess male mortality appears constant across the four very different countries included in the table.
maternal
▪ The real frequency of worldwide maternal mortality may be as much as three to five times higher than this ratio.
▪ In some places, it meant maternal mortality and female infanticide.
▪ None the less, the London Bills of Mortality suggest that maternal mortality halved from 1700 to 1800.
▪ It should be noted that, jointly with maternal age, parity is also associated with maternal mortality.
neonatal
▪ As the example of Table 7 shows, both late fetal and early neonatal mortality rise steadily with decreasing birth weight.
▪ New York has substantially worse infant and neonatal mortality than London or Paris and some signs of worse problems of social deprivation.
overall
▪ GISSI-2 found no differences in overall mortality between streptokinase and tPA, although streptokinase was associated with significantly fewer strokes.
▪ Have these overall changes in mortality been reflected equally in the different causes of death?
▪ The overall distribution of mortality rates within the population shows a J-shaped distribution.
▪ The overall in-hospital mortality was 8.5% but with triple vessel disease it was 25%.
▪ Accordingly there are no great differences in cancer related and overall mortality between treatment and surveillance studies.
▪ The overall in-hospital mortality of 15.6% of this cohort was similar to short-term mortality of similar cohorts in previous studies.
perinatal
▪ Thus the perinatal mortality ratio is the sum of the late fetal death ratio and the under-7-day mortality rate.
▪ For these categories hospital 1 had the lowest perinatal mortality rates among the consultant units after adjustment for risk factors.
▪ The problems of interpreting perinatal mortality rates have been described by Campbell and MacDonald Davies and Tew.
▪ As many congenital abnormalities can be prevented, these developmental defects should not be considered an irreducible component of perinatal mortality.
▪ Perhaps not surprisingly, the women transferred to consultant care had the highest perinatal mortality rates.
▪ Main outcome measure - Crude perinatal mortality rates and rates adjusted for case mix.
▪ Conclusion - Perinatal mortality rates should be adjusted for case mix and referral patterns to get a meaningful result.
▪ No estimates of perinatal mortality rates were made for the units where few referrals and subsequent perinatal deaths occurred.
premature
▪ This term relates to the effect upon natural lifespan of a decrease in premature mortality.
▪ As premature mortality decreases, he argues, more people will live to the limits of this natural lifespan.
significant
▪ For these reasons, patients with corrosive strictures often undergo surgery, which carries significant morbidity and mortality.
▪ Nevertheless, though it is a major operation, with a significant complication and mortality rate, hysterectomy grows ever more popular.
▪ Acute pancreatitis is a severe disease with significant morbidity and mortality for which no specific treatment exists.
specific
▪ The evaluation of changes in disease specific mortality rates over time is problematic because of changes in classification procedures and death certification practices.
▪ Figure 3 shows the combined data on cause specific mortality.
standardised
▪ It is therefore crucial to include standardised mortality ratios alongside age weightings to correct for variations in life expectancy.
▪ These men also had the highest standardised mortality ratio for all causes of death.
▪ We also calculated standardised mortality ratios for all hypertensive patients.
▪ The sum of each subject's cumulative hazard of death was compared with observed deaths to find the standardised mortality ratio.
▪ There were no trends in standardised mortality ratios from cardiovascular disease or other causes with the number of previous pregnancies.
▪ Death rates were expressed as standardised mortality ratios, with the national average as 100.
▪ The overall death rate from cardiovascular disease was close to the national average, the standardised mortality ratio being 94.
▪ However, because deprivation is also associated with excess mortality some of this is already picked up by including standardised mortality ratio.
total
▪ The oral hygiene index carried about the same level of increased risk for total mortality as for the incidence of coronary heart disease.
▪ In addition to the incidence of coronary heart disease we also evaluated associations with total mortality.
▪ Main outcome measures - Incidence of mortality or admission to hospital because of coronary heart disease; total mortality.
▪ Both periodontal disease and poor oral hygiene showed stronger associations with total mortality than with coronary heart disease.
■ NOUN
cancer
▪ Results - Cancer mortality was not significantly different in clinic patients as a whole and controls.
▪ I was able to make over thirty predictions on statistically reliable differences in cancer mortality rates in various groups.
▪ Introduction A recent Medical Research Council trial shows higher cancer mortality in elderly hypertensive men treated with atenolol.
▪ In contrast cancer mortality overall has changed little.
child
▪ The new recommendations made no reference to reduction of infant and child mortality as preconditions of fertility reduction.
▪ Askoli suffers a 50 percent child mortality rate, largely as a result of gastro-enteritis.
▪ Although food is more plentiful these days, child mortality remains dangerously high.
▪ Other observations from infant as well as child mortality.
▪ Among middle-income and poor countries progress in reducing child mortality and raising school enrolments was faster before 1980.
▪ Literacy alone carries advantages in so far as child mortality is concerned.
▪ See also infant mortality, toddler mortality, child mortality.
▪ On the whole, the impact of spacing upon child mortality outweighs that of any other factor discussed above.
childhood
▪ Fetal, infant and early childhood mortality and maternity related deaths to women of reproductive age are the classes of mortality examined.
▪ And these patterns determine, at least inpart, the viability of the offspring, infant and childhood mortality conditions and maternal health.
▪ The husband's educational level also influences early childhood mortality.
data
▪ As might be expected from the study of mortality data acute health problems are not equally distributed throughout the population.
▪ Regional health authorities will from time to time produce mortality data at ward level.
▪ For example, by relying exclusively on mortality data the ineffectiveness of medical science is overstated.
▪ Consequently inferences made about the main sources of morbidity in later life drawn from mortality data will be misleading.
▪ And for both, morbidity statistics are less accessible and less reliable than mortality data.
▪ There are practical problems with the use of mortality data.
rate
▪ The main reason was that mortality rates dropped very sharply.
▪ Unsuccessfully treated severe depression is a disease with a mortality rate similar to that of cancer.
▪ The impact of social class has, however, been the same on the mortality rates of both sexes.
▪ That was a mortality rate of one afflicted child in four.
▪ The whole mortality rate of the present series was 68%.
▪ Yes, mortality rates among cigarette smokers are way higher than among cigar smokers.
▪ The relationship between fertility rates and mortality rates has created a population structure which has varied substantially during the period in question.
▪ Nevertheless, though it is a major operation, with a significant complication and mortality rate, hysterectomy grows ever more popular.
ratio
▪ It is therefore crucial to include standardised mortality ratios alongside age weightings to correct for variations in life expectancy.
▪ Thus the perinatal mortality ratio is the sum of the late fetal death ratio and the under-7-day mortality rate.
▪ These men also had the highest standardised mortality ratio for all causes of death.
▪ We also calculated standardised mortality ratios for all hypertensive patients.
▪ The sum of each subject's cumulative hazard of death was compared with observed deaths to find the standardised mortality ratio.
▪ There were no trends in standardised mortality ratios from cardiovascular disease or other causes with the number of previous pregnancies.
▪ Death rates were expressed as standardised mortality ratios, with the national average as 100.
▪ The overall death rate from cardiovascular disease was close to the national average, the standardised mortality ratio being 94.
risk
▪ For coronary heart disease, estrogen users had a 60 % reduction in mortality risk.
statistics
▪ It should be noted that morbidity statistics are generally of less reliable quality than mortality statistics.
▪ This ranking order is based on the latest available mortality statistics, ranging from 1977 to 1979.
■ VERB
associate
▪ The induction of ventricular arrhythmias was associated with a 21% mortality against 4% in the negative group.
▪ Although restorative proctocolectomy is associated with a low mortality the morbidity is considerable.
▪ The reduction was not associated with increased mortality and was reversible if plants were returned to 20°C.
▪ The data indicate that dimorphism in adult size may be associated with mortality bias differences brought about by dissimilar adult life styles.
cause
▪ Arguments about what caused the decline in mortality shift between eighteenth- and later nineteenth-century changes.
decrease
▪ Deaths from paracetamol overdose are unnecessary, and efforts should be made to decrease this mortality.
increase
▪ They described, once again, how most people regain the weight on diets and how weight cycling leads to increased mortality.
indicate
▪ Epidemiological studies indicate similar mortality rates for cancer of the oesophagus in smokers of cigars, pipes and cigarettes.
▪ This indicates an annual mortality from asthma of just over 1/100000.
reduce
▪ Apart from reconditioning of patients, does cardiac rehabilitation reduce mortality and morbidity?
▪ The combined effect was to reduce mortality rates.
▪ Early maturity also reduces male juvenile mortality and thus opposes adult mortality.
▪ For example, improved pregnancy outcome that reduces infant mortality will increase productivity in the labor force in 16 to 25 years.
▪ Repeated doses of oral activated charcoal have not yet been shown to reduce morbidity and mortality.
▪ Among middle-income and poor countries progress in reducing child mortality and raising school enrolments was faster before 1980.
▪ An incompletely resolved puzzle is the mechanism by which vitamin A reduces mortality.
show
▪ Early detection regimens should not be applied unless benefit is shown in terms of reduced mortality from cancer in randomised prospective trials.
▪ It focused on the fact that none of the trials showed a decrease in mortality within seven years of follow-up.
▪ The results indicated that current smokers showed excess mortality when compared with non-smokers.
▪ These showed an average annual mortality of four deaths per year for the 10 years as a whole.
▪ Introduction A recent Medical Research Council trial shows higher cancer mortality in elderly hypertensive men treated with atenolol.
▪ Our analysis showed a reduction in mortality during the first 6 months with polychemotherapy.
▪ In contrast patients subjected to sclerotherapy showed no early mortality but a steady decline in survival in the first two years.
▪ The survival curve for the study shows that the highest mortality is during the first four years after diagnosis.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Cancer mortality among older people is high.
▪ Doctors are reminded of their mortality every day.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And we are also experiencing mortality. in some areas very rapid mortality.
▪ Fetal, infant and early childhood mortality and maternity related deaths to women of reproductive age are the classes of mortality examined.
▪ In the high grade group, none of the variables or different modes of treatment influenced mortality.
▪ Nevertheless, the reasons for the striking decline in infant mortality in this period remain rather mysterious.
▪ Of all groups, single males have the highest mortality rate-and suicide is increasingly the way they die.
▪ Total mortality and each of the outcomes of coronary heart disease increased as severity of periodontal disease increased.
▪ Whatever way they sliced the statistics, the mortality of the red spruce was dramatic and frightening.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mortality

Mortality \Mor*tal"i*ty\, n. [L. mortalitas: cf. F. mortalit['e].]

  1. The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.

    When I saw her die, I then did think on your mortality.
    --Carew.

  2. Human life; the life of a mortal being.

    From this instant There 's nothing serious in mortality.
    --Shak.

  3. Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human race; humanity; human nature.

    Take these tears, mortality's relief.
    --Pope.

  4. Death; destruction.
    --Shak.

  5. The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming.

    Bill of mortality. See under Bill.

    Law of mortality, a mathematical relation between the numbers living at different ages, so that from a given large number of persons alive at one age, it can be computed what number are likely to survive a given number of years.

    Table of mortality, a table exhibiting the average relative number of persons who survive, or who have died, at the end of each year of life, out of a given number supposed to have been born at the same time.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mortality

mid-14c., "condition of being mortal," from Old French mortalite "massacre, slaughter; fatal illness; poverty; destruction" (12c.), from Latin mortalitem (nominative mortalitas) "state of being mortal; subjection to death," from mortalis (see mortal (adj.)). Meaning "widespread death" is from c.1400; meaning "number of deaths from some cause or in a given period" is from 1640s.

Wiktionary
mortality

n. 1 The condition of being susceptible to death. 2 (context demography English) The death rate of a population.

WordNet
mortality
  1. n. the quality or state of being mortal [ant: immortality]

  2. the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year [syn: deathrate, death rate, morbidity, mortality rate, fatality rate]

Wikipedia
Mortality

Mortality is the state of being mortal, or susceptible to death; the opposite of immortality.

Mortality may also refer to:

  • Mortality (book), a 2012 collection of essays by Anglo-American writer Christopher Hitchens
  • Mortality (computability theory), a property of a Turing machine if it halts when run on any starting configuration
  • Mortality rate, a measure of the number of deaths in a given population
  • Mortality drag, a negative impact that is experienced when an annuity purchase is delayed
  • Mortality/differential attrition, an error in the internal validity of a scientific study
  • Mortality, a short-lived thrash metal band from Sydney, Australia, that was related to the band Cryogenic (band)
Mortality (computability theory)

In computability theory, the mortality problem is a decision problem which can be stated as follows:

Given a Turing machine, decide whether it halts when run on any configuration (not necessarily a starting one)

In the statement above, the configuration is a pair <q, w>, where q is one of the machine's states (not necessarily its initial state) and w is an infinite sequence of symbols representing the initial content of the tape. Note that while we usually assume that in the starting configuration all but finitely many cells on the tape are blanks, in the mortality problem the tape can have arbitrary content, including infinitely many non-blank symbols written on it.

Philip K. Hooper proved in 1966 that the mortality problem is undecidable. However, it can be shown that the set of Turing machines which are mortal (i.e. halt on every starting configuration) is recursively enumerable.

Category:Theory of computation

Mortality (book)

Mortality is a 2012, posthumously published book by Christopher Hitchens, comprising seven essays which first appeared in Vanity Fair concerning his struggle with oesophageal cancer, with which he was diagnosed during his 2010 book tour and to which he succumbed in December 2011. An eighth chapter consisting of unfinished "fragmentary jottings," a foreword by Graydon Carter, Hitchens' Vanity Fair editor and an afterword by Carol Blue, Hitchens' widow, are also included in the publication.

Usage examples of "mortality".

No longer ago than yesterday, in one of the most widely circulated papers of this city, there was published an assertion that the mortality in several Homoeopathic Hospitals was not quite five in a hundred, whereas, in what are called by the writer Allopathic Hospitals, it is said to be eleven in a hundred.

I described the anguish of watching my family growing older, suffering every wound that mortality can inflict.

This mortality exclosure was deep in the trees, shrouded in darkness and veiled with Spanish moss.

There is also some evidence that, altogether apart from the infant mortality, the children of young mothers attain a greater longevity than do those of older women.

In early times the mortality of inguinal colostomy was about five per cent, but has been gradually reduced until Konig reports 20 cases with only one death from peritonitis, and Cripps 26 cases with only one death.

A considerable preponderance of the victims are of the male sex, so that there is thus early begun that process of higher male mortality, which is the chief cause of the female preponderance that is so injurious to womanhood and to society.

Clairvaux the absence of these, like the putting off of mortality itself, freed the spirits of the nearly ransomed to foretaste of heaven.

Cast back toward the dimmer frame of his mortality, Arithon screamed in recoiling pain.

The experience had reforged his whole being, mortality shed like dross before flame.

The flaccidity of her triceps muscle was so complete as to disturb Father Collins with its intimations of mortality and her odor was of ill digestion.

Behind the glitter, the arrogant assurance of the young, the adolescent scorn for mortality, was an empty darkness in which prowled the unadmitted fears that propelled the music and the lights, that added a sense of urgency to the gyrations of the performers.

And I venture with assurance to predict, that some time within the next fifty years, the Governments of England and of the United States, alarmed, it may be, by a continually increasing mortality from cancer, will condemn under severest penalties, the sale for human food of meat deriveed from animals affected by malignant disease,--no matter how great may be the pecuniary loss to every slaughtering establishment and packing-house in either land.

To this, it may be added that Dalgarnock kirk-yard is the scene where the author of Waverley finds Old Mortality repairing the Cameronian grave-stones.

When celiotomy is performed for ruptured bladder, in a manner suggested by the elder Gross, the mortality is much less.

For while we are well aware of our mortality, your Greeklings believe that you are a god, even if we well know that you are mortal and subject to human corruption.