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mortality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Mortality is the
state of
being mortal, or
susceptible to death; the
opposite of immortality.
Mortality...
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Mortality rate, or
death rate,: 189, 69 is a
measure of the
number of
deaths (in general, or due to a
specific cause) in a
particular po****tion, scaled...
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Infant mortality is the
death of an
infant before the infant's
first birthday. The
occurrence of
infant mortality in a po****tion can be
described by the...
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Morbidity and
mortality may
refer to:
Morbidity and
Mortality (journal), now
known as
Morbidity and
Mortality W****ly Report, a w****ly
publication by the...
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Child mortality is the
death of
children under the age of five. The
child mortality rate (also under-five
mortality rate)
refers to the
probability of...
- under-five
mortality rate (U5MR) is the
number of
deaths of
infants and
children under five
years old per 1000 live births. The under-five
mortality rate for...
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Mortality salience is the
awareness that one's
death is inevitable. The term
derives from
terror management theory,
which proposes the so-called mortality...
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Maternal death or
maternal mortality is
defined in
slightly different ways by
several different health organizations. The
World Health Organization (WHO)...
- In epidemiology, the
excess deaths or
excess mortality is a
measure of the
increase in the
number of
deaths during a time
period and/or in a
certain group...
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pestis or pestilentia, 'pestilence'; epidemia, 'epidemic'; mortalitas, '
mortality'. In
English prior to the 18th century, the
event was
called the "pestilence"...
