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CASE-FATALITY PROPORTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does case-fatality proportion mean? 

CASE-FATALITY PROPORTION (noun)
  The noun CASE-FATALITY PROPORTION has 1 sense:

1. the number of cases of a disease ending in death divided by the number of cases of the disease; usually expressed as a percentage or as the number of deaths per 1000 casesplay

  Familiarity information: CASE-FATALITY PROPORTION used as a noun is very rare.


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CASE-FATALITY PROPORTION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The number of cases of a disease ending in death divided by the number of cases of the disease; usually expressed as a percentage or as the number of deaths per 1000 cases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("case-fatality proportion" is a kind of...):

proportion (the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole)


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