Mortality

Word MORTALITY
Character 9
Hyphenation mor tal i ty
Pronunciations /mɔɹˈtælɪti/

Definitions and meanings of "Mortality"

What do we mean by mortality?

The quality or condition of being mortal. noun

Mortals considered as a group; the human race. noun

Death, especially of large numbers; heavy loss of life. noun

Death rate. noun

The rate of failure or loss. noun

The condition or character of being mortal, or of being subject to death, or to the necessity of dying. noun

Death. noun

Frequency of death; numerousness of deaths; deaths in relation to their numbers: as, a time of great mortality. noun

Specifically, the number of deaths in proportion to population: usually stated as the number of deaths per thousand of population. noun

The duration of human life. noun

Humanity; human nature; the human race. noun

The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying. noun

Human life; the life of a mortal being. noun

Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human race; humanity; human nature. noun

Death; destruction. noun

The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate noun

See under Bill. noun

A mathematical relation between the numbers living at different ages, so that from a given large number of persons alive at one age, it can be computed what number are likely to survive a given number of years. noun

A table exhibiting the average relative number of persons who survive, or who have died, at the end of each year of life, out of a given number supposed to have been born at the same time. noun

The condition of being susceptible to death noun

The state or quality of being mortal.

The number of deaths.

Death.

Mortals collectively.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Mortality

The word "mortality" in example sentences

The assertion of a 1% reduction in mortality is not necessarily orthogonal to a 41-91% reduction in hospitalizations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Socioeconomic disparity in mortality is pervasive, and it continues to increase," said Ahmedin Jemal, an epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society who lead the study. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Living standards are now independent of population levels, so any reduction in mortality is an unalloyed blessing. ❋ Unknown (2008)

‘The one human flaw, mortality, is the one thing that makes you whole.’ ❋ Unknown (2009)

The argument for the role of public health in reduced mortality is made most prominently by Samuel Preston (1975, 1980, 1996). ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the USA, black babies are 1½ times as likely as whites to be premature — a major reason that black infant mortality is so much higher than that of whites, says Christopher Howson, vice president for global programs at the March of Dimes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

High infant mortality is caused by many factors, such as low birth weights and preterm births. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I realize the title of my report sounds bizarre, but before you label me insane, consider the following well-established fact -- The Telemark Polyp Study demonstrated a 57% increase in mortality among patients screened for colon cancer vis-à-vis unscreened controls. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unfortunately, there are a lot of miscarriages, and infant-maternal mortality is uncomfortably high (certainly higher than one would expect in the American heartland). ❋ Intertribal (2010)

Writing in the Lancet medical journal, Knoll and colleague Christopher Murray said they found under-5 mortality is falling in every region of the world with increases in only Swaziland, Lesotho, Equatorial Guinea and Antigua and Barbuda. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It has also been my contention that post-mortality is essential for libertarianism. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Such comparisons have shown a dramatic difference in mortality between these two groups: study after study has found that people who get a flu shot in the fall are about half as likely to die that winter — from any cause — as people who do not. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Time Lords would always be there but human mortality is what makes them so fascinating to the Doctor ... fascinating to the point he'd like to be one, only this time remembering who he is. ❋ Rabid1st (2009)

Generalized weakness, malaise, loss of coordination and respiratory arrest may be present; mortality is close to 50percent in some studies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For example, while he allows that, in mortality rates, the inner-city men at age 68 to 70 resembled the Terman and Harvard cohorts at 78 to 80, he says that most of the difference can be explained by less education, more obesity, and greater abuse of alcohol and cigarettes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These adverse events often included anaphylactoid reactions (23 percent) and serum sickness (50 percent) .1 Although most adverse events did not result in mortality when treated with appropriate medication, such complications are problematic and fueled the development of a less immunogenic antivenin. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However, the increase in mortality following extreme heat appears entirely driven by temporal displacement, while the increase in mortality following extreme cold is long lasting. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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