morbidity vs mortality
Definitions
noun
- the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you
- the relative incidence of a particular disease
- an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind
Examples
Prostate cancer is a common malignant tumor in male genitourinary system, it morbidity is increasing in recent years.
I find that the association between gestational diabetes and perinatal death or morbidity was recognized in 1983.
In patients with superimposed bacterial infection, septicaemia develops and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality.
Definitions
noun
- the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
- the quality or state of being mortal
Examples
Food sharing with nonkin reduces the costs to kin of child rearing, but also reduces the resources recaptured by kin after an infant death, so evolved infant mortality is lower.
The fall in popularity of the death's head and the subsequent prevalence of the cherub was a reflection of the Great Awakening and the belief in the immortality of the soul: "Cherubs reflect a stress on resurrection, while death's heads emphasize the mortality of man.
At the least, that first conclusion seems to me unproven by his own arguments in favor of mortality.
