MORBIDITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does morbidity mean? 

• MORBIDITY (noun)
  The noun MORBIDITY has 3 senses:

1. the relative incidence of a particular disease

2. an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind

3. the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you

  Familiarity information: MORBIDITY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORBIDITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The relative incidence of a particular disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("morbidity" is a kind of...):

incidence; relative incidence (the relative frequency of occurrence of something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

morbidity; morbidness

Context example:

his fear of being alone verges on morbidity

Hypernyms ("morbidity" is a kind of...):

cognitive state; state of mind (the state of a person's cognitive processes)

Derivation:

morbid (suggesting an unhealthy mental state)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

morbidity; morbidness; unwholesomeness

Hypernyms ("morbidity" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "morbidity"):

harmfulness; noisomeness; noxiousness (the quality of being noxious)

perniciousness; toxicity (grave harmfulness or deadliness)

deadliness; lethality (the quality of being deadly)

putrescence; rottenness (the quality of rotting and becoming putrid)

unhealthfulness (the quality of promoting poor health)

Derivation:

morbid (caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology)

 Context examples 

Development of scientific information and concepts, and dissemination of knowledge regarding early detection techniques, practices, and strategies to reduce mortality and morbidity from cancer.

(Early Detection Branch, NCI Thesaurus)

Morbidity; the relative incidence of a particular disease in a population.

(Morbidity, NCI Thesaurus)

Morbidity also refers to medical problems caused by a treatment.

(Morbidity, NCI Dictionary)

An extension of the ICD-9 created by the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics so that the system could be used to capture more morbidity data.

(International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification, NCI Thesaurus)

While the tumor may be histologically benign, it can produce great morbidity due to its location.

(Childhood Brain Stem Glioma, NCI Thesaurus)

The NCI Cancer Centers Program comprises more than 50 NCI-designated cancer centers engaged in multidisciplinary research to reduce cancer incidence, morbidity and mortality.

(National Cancer Institute Cancer Centers Program, NCI Thesaurus)

For most patients, the clinical course includes a progression of neurologic disability and increased morbidity from autonomic dysfunction.

(Allgrove Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

“Studying the genetic basis of this trait can help explain why some people are more susceptible to sleep disordered breathing and its related morbidities.”

(Researchers identify genetic variations linked to oxygen drops during sleep, National Institutes of Health)

Hypertrophy associated with both hypertension and obstruction to ventricular outflow leads to pathologic cardiac growth and it is associated with increase morbidity and mortality.

(NFAT Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

India needs region-specific anti-venoms to deal with a large variety of venomous snakes in order to reduce death and morbidity from snakebite, says a new study.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)