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US
/mɔɹˈbɪdəti/
]
[ UK /mɔːbˈɪdɪti/ ]
[ UK /mɔːbˈɪdɪti/ ]
NOUN
- the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you
- the relative incidence of a particular disease
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an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind
his fear of being alone verges on morbidity
How To Use morbidity In A Sentence
- 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.
- I didn't see any Western country with so many elements of social morbidity: poverty, beggary and starvation.
- Malaria morbidity and mortality have been held in check by the widespread availability of cheap and effective antimalarial drugs.
- There's a lot of overlap with obsessive-compulsive disorder, what they call comorbidity -- depression, eating disorders, sometimes ADHD. CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2009
- Epidemics of influenza are associated with increases in mortality and morbidity.
- He thought it without morbidity for he had loved his brother dearly. IN LOVE AND WAR
- This adds to the comorbidity, meaning they have more mental health issues, because they can't figure out why they are being invalidated. The Bilerico Project
- The benefits of this approach must be weighed against the morbidity of the procedure.
