Morbidity

The condition of being in a diseased state.

A diseased state or symptom or can refer either to the incidence rate or to the prevalence rate of a disease.

In psychiatry, the term is used to describe associated adverse effects of a mental or physical disorder or treatment in physical or mental terms.

The number of people with a sickness or disease in a population.

The number of deaths in a population.

Loss of physical and psychological health and well-being, whether temporary or permanent. Often morbidity is stated as a rate determined by dividing the total number of people in a group into the number of people who suffer illness or injury. For example, if a sample population of 1,000 people lives in a given city and 50 of them develop influenza (flu), the morbidity rate is 0.05.

The extent of illness, injury, or disability in a defined population. It is usually expressed in general or specific rates of incidence or prevalence. Sometimes used to refer to any episode of disease.

The condition of being diseased or sick.

Illness leading to death.

The condition of having a disease or disorder. In medicine, the morbidity ratio is the number of people with a particular disease or disorder (such as cerebral palsy, Down’s syndrome, or measles) compared to the total number of people in a group (such as all babies, only low-birth-weight babies, or all female babies).

Illness, injury, or other than normal health. This term is often used in describing a rate (a statistical term). One type of hospital morbidity rate, for example, is the postoperative infection rate; it is the number of patients with infections following surgery, expressed as a proportion of those undergoing surgery, within a given period of time.

The state of being diseased. The morbidity rate is the number of cases of a disease found to occur in a stated number of the population, usually given as cases per 100,000 or per million. Annual figures for morbidity rate give the incidence of the disease, which is the number of new cases reported in the year.

The condition of being diseased. The morbidity rate is the number of cases of disease occurring within a particular number of the population, usually expressed as n/10,000 or n/100,000.

In the context of medical terminology, it denotes an ailment or pathological state. In statistics, it pertains to the frequency or occurrence rate of a particular disease.

Morbidity refers to the condition of having a disease. In medical statistics, the morbidity rate represents the ratio of individuals with a disease to the healthy population within a specific community.

The characteristic of being afflicted with disease or of having a diseased condition; the factors or circumstances that lead to the onset of illness.