mortality

[mɔːrˈtæləti]

Definition:
1. The quality or state of being mortal.
2. The ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year.

Use 'mortality' in a sentence:

1. Researchers found declines in a person's ability to carry out activities of daily living were stronger predictors of six-month mortality than the diseases that a person has.
2. One case recurred on opposite side and without mortality.
3. Quantitative analysis of factors affected mortality trend in Chinese, 2002.
4. Heat Waves and Related Mortality in Shanghai in 1998 and 2003.
5. Studies of the neonatal mortality in high altitude area.
6. In healthcare, the weekend effect is the finding of a difference in mortality rate for patients admitted to hospital for treatment at the weekend compared to those admitted on a weekday.
7. Since dolphins rid their bodies of the compounds rapidly once exposure ceases, their mortality rate should decline rapidly if such boat paints are banned.
8. Associated anomalies and prematurity significantly influence the mortality rate.
9. The cancer mortality rate was a head above that for the average level in China;
10. The Mediterranean groups had lower mortality rates in all age brackets and from all causes, particularly from heart disease.
11. To achieve giant stature, a tree needs three things: the right place to establish its seedling, good growing conditions and lots of time with low adult mortality.
12. Disseminated strongyloidiasis has a 90% mortality.
13. Too few proteins lead to night blindness, perifollicular hyperkeratosis, xerophthalmia, increased morbidity and mortality in young children.
14. The effects of environmental meteorological factors on cardiopulmonary mortality in Chengdu.
15. The poor turned to water and gin and in the 1720s the mortality rate began to rise again.
16. Others have suggested that the harvesting of vertebrate and invertebrate predators of Acanthaster could have reduced mortality and caused increased abundance of adults.
17. Mortality rates actually increased with age in the same birth cohort.
18. Mortality study of cancer among Anshan Iron and steel workers.
19. The grass grows up to four metres tall and burns fiercely, creating super hot fires that cause catastrophic tree mortality.
20. These are weird fantasies& we use them merely to bring out the mental side of the question concerning mortality and the individual good.
21. In the Amazon, my colleagues and I found the mortality rate for the biggest trees had tripled in small patches of rainforest surrounded by pasture land.
22. The unusually high mortality rate among dolphin calves in the industrially contaminated waters along Florida's Gulf Coast is probably the result of their being poisoned by their mother's milk.
23. According to C40, a climate leadership group made up of 97 cities around the world, extreme heat events in cities can cause mortality increases of up to 14%, as well as lower workforce such as roads and rail lines.
24. However, Zaire, with its 90% mortality rate, was even worse.
25. That in turn has cut child mortality.
26. Back in the early 1990s, we never would have suspected that population growth would have turned negative because of AIDS mortality.
27. She has suddenly come face to face with her own mortality.
28. Kallner and Groen studied the mortality from coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular accidents among immigrants to israel.
29. After her mother's death, she became acutely aware of her own mortality.
30. Correspondence Analysis and its Application in Studying the Mortality Distribution of Malignant Tumors.
31. In addition, cancer mortality was higher in cancer patients who were unmarried, widowed or divorced at baseline.
32. In 1985, after the National Literacy Crusade had ended, the infant mortality figures for those who remained illiterate and for those educated in primary school remained more or less unchanged.
33. Loneliness has been suggested as a risk factor for cancer mortality. However, connections between loneliness, social isolation2, and cancer are poorly understood.
34. By comparing the mortality rates between the dog owners and the rest of the patient sample, the team found not only were our canine companions correlated with better health, that improvement was a real life saver.
35. MC's also significantly reduce the morbidity and mortality induced by honeybee venom.
36. Premature birth is the main cause of perinatal mortality.
37. Strengthen Community Health Service and Reduce Maternal Mortality Rate.
38. Influence of social factors on the maternal mortality rate in the rural areas.
39. My interpreter, who is a doctor, and I were on a mission to photograph maternal health and mortality issues.
40. The document concludes that the high risk of infant, child, and maternal mortality is associated with pregnancies where mothers are too young, too old, or have already had several children.
41. The United States ranks 20th in its infant mortality rate.
42. Infant and maternal mortality rates went down 132 percent and 147 percent respectively.
43. In the late 1970s, the infant mortality rate for the children of illiterate mothers was around 110 deaths per thousand live births.
44. Infant mortality in Palestine refugees is among the lowest in the Near East.
45. By the 1740s, about the time that infant mortality was dipping, the drink was common.
46. Preterm birth and low birth weight ( lbw) are major determinants of infant morbidity and mortality.
47. Some research suggests that the explanation for rising rates of mortality, mental-health problems, and addiction among poorly-educated, middle-aged people is a shortage of well-paid jobs.
48. A team from the University of Eastern Finland worked with 2570 middle-aged men, monitoring their health and mortality from the 1980s to the present day.
49. A closer look at the fertility behavior of the poor is important because of the extensive literature on the "replacement effect" of high infant mortality.
50. Regional pilot health reform project contributes to decrease in infant mortality, increase in life expectancy.
51. Mortality from lung cancer is still increasing.
52. Infant mortality is a reliable barometer of socio-economic conditions.
53. The most serious is increasing mortality, especially of mature trees.
54. The study also demonstrated a direct link between obesity and mortality.
55. The nation's infant mortality rate has reached a record low.