Finding
morbidity Audio
mor·bid·i·ty [ mawr-bid-i-tee ]
Subclass of:
Vital Statistics
Definitions related to morbidity - disease rate:
  • (morbidity) A disease or the incidence of disease within a population. Morbidity also refers to adverse effects caused by a treatment.
    NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (morbidity) Morbidity; the relative incidence of a particular disease in a population.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (morbidity) The proportion of patients with a particular disease during a given year per given unit of population.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • (morbidity rate) A measure of the frequency of occurrence of a specific illness in a defined population during a specified interval.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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