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Prevalence vs Recurrence - What's the difference?

prevalence | recurrence |

As nouns the difference between prevalence and recurrence

is that prevalence is prevalence while recurrence is recurrence (return or reversion to a certain state).

prevalence

Noun

  • The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension.
  • (epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.
  • See also

    * incidence

    recurrence

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Return or reversion to a certain state.
  • The instance of recurring; frequent occurrence.
  • I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations. — I. Taylor.
  • A return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease.
  • Recourse.
  • Synonyms

    * reoccurrence

    Hyponyms

    * recrudescence * reemergence * resurgence

    References

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