mortality

How To Use mortality In A Sentence

• 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. Archive 2008-06-01
• 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. Headstones for Dummies, the New York Edition
• At the least, that first conclusion seems to me unproven by his own arguments in favor of mortality.
• For some, the inexorable march of years and the pathos of mortality bring an inward, deep resentment. Christianity Today
• Several events of fulminating epidemic disease broke out since 1999, which often caused 100% mortality of abalone Haliotis drversicotor aquatilis farmed in Fujian and Guangdong coasts.
• The results of two recent studies have demonstrated an association between postneonatal mortality and particulate air pollution.
• It is not surprising that the mortality due to feather pecking, cannibalism and parasitic diseases can be disturbingly high.
• Thus the perinatal mortality ratio is the sum of the late fetal death ratio and the under-7-day mortality rate.
• -- and that they lived in other worlds -- but there is no passage showing that they believed in what we call the immortality of the soul. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews
• In patients with superimposed bacterial infection, septicaemia develops and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality.