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What is the difference between morbidity and mortality?

morbidity | mortality |

As nouns the difference between morbidity and mortality

is that morbidity is the quality of being unhealthful, morbid, sometimes including the cause while mortality is the condition of being susceptible to death.

morbidity

English

Noun

  • The quality of being unhealthful, morbid, sometimes including the cause.
  • (medicine) The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected.
  • (medicine, countable) An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness.
  • (medicine, countable) Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery.

    • Synonyms

    * morbidness * unwholesomeness

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * morbidezza * morbific * morbidly * morbific * morbilli

    See also

    * soreness * valetudinarianism

    mortality

    English

    (wikipedia mortality)

    Noun

  • The condition of being susceptible to death.
  • (demography) The death rate of a population.

    • Antonyms

    * immortality * eternality

    Related terms

    * mortal