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morbidity|mɔːˈbɪdɪtɪ|
[f. morbid a. + -ity.]
1. The quality or condition of being morbid; a morbid state or symptom; pl. morbid characteristics or ideas.
1721in Bailey. 1795A. Seward Lett. (1811) IV. 364 To decry episodes of sentiment, allegory, or narrative, in didactic composition, is a singular morbidity in criticism. 1821New Monthly Mag. II. 300 Our feelings..lie rankling and rotting into morbidity and corruption. 1825Ibid. XV. 508 We trust he will endeavour to shake off his morbidities, whether real or assumed. 1884Spectator 4 Oct. 1324/1 On the whole the story is singularly free from morbidity. 1904A. C. Bradley Shakesp. Trag. 111 It makes all his cynicism, grossness and hardness appear to us morbidities.
2. Med. Prevalence of disease; the extent or degree of prevalence of disease in a district: = morbility.
1882Quain's Med. Dict. 998/2 Morbidity. This term, which is of recent introduction, is employed to denote the amount of illness existing in a given community; and, as ‘mortality’ expresses the death-rate, so ‘morbidity’ indicates the sick-rate, whether the diseases be fatal or not. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 30 The table which I have constructed in order to exhibit the relative morbidities of several groups of [French] departments. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases i. 1 [Malaria] is the principal cause of morbidity and death in the tropics and sub-tropics.
3. attrib., as morbidity rate, morbidity statistics.
1939Kurtz & Edgerton Statistical Dict. Terms & Symbols 108 *Morbidity rate, the ratio of the number of cases of a particular disease in a year to the midyear population, usually expressed per 100,000. 1964Gould & Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 445/1 Frequently suitable criteria are provided by the effects of the illness upon everyday life. This is the only possible approach to aggregating morbidity rates from all conditions. 1971Brit. Med. Bull. XXVII. 11/2 The respiratory morbidity-rates were far in excess of those found in English areas with comparable levels of pollution.
1964Gould & Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 445/1 The main uses of *morbidity statistics relate to the study of particular conditions, public health work, the economic aspects of illness, the cost of medical care or social security systems. |