morbidity

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause. countable,uncountable
  2. The quality of being morbid; an attitude or state of mind marked by gloom. countable,uncountable
    — He taught him how to be superior to human foibles and how to give a godlike laugh at himself as a way of fending off morbidity. He did all the things for him that a woman is grateful for, except that Magnus is a man.
  3. The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected. countable,uncountable
  4. An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness. countable
  5. Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery. countable
  6. The sickness rate of a population. countable,uncountable

词形变化

morbidities plural

词源

Recorded since 1721; from morbid + -ity, from Latin morbidus (“diseased”), from morbus (“disease”), from the root of morī (“to die”) or from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pound, wear away”).
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