Morbidity

In medicine and epidemiology, the term morbidity can refer to

• the state of being diseased (from Latin morbidus: sick, unhealthy),
• the degree or severity of a disease,
• the prevalence of a disease: the total number of cases in a particular population at a particular point in time,
• the incidence of a disease: the number of new cases in a particular population during a particular time interval.

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