INCIDENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incidence mean? 

• INCIDENCE (noun)
  The noun INCIDENCE has 2 senses:

1. the relative frequency of occurrence of something

2. the striking of a light beam on a surface

  Familiarity information: INCIDENCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCIDENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The relative frequency of occurrence of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

incidence; relative incidence

Hypernyms ("incidence" is a kind of...):

frequency; relative frequency (the ratio of the number of observations in a statistical category to the total number of observations)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "incidence"):

morbidity (the relative incidence of a particular disease)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The striking of a light beam on a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Context example:

he measured the angle of incidence of the reflected light

Hypernyms ("incidence" is a kind of...):

optical phenomenon (a physical phenomenon related to or involving light)

Derivation:

incident (falling or striking of light rays on something)

 Context examples 

Women suffer from a higher incidence of chronic and inflammatory pain conditions such as fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis.

(Why Women May Feel More Pain Than Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This variant may reduce the incidence of breast cancer in subjects who carry this allele.

(CASP8*1 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

NIH Emphasis Area — The term "prevention" refers to prophylactic and preventative efforts to achieve a significant reduction in cancer incidence, cancer mortality, and cancer morbidity.

(Cancer Prevention, Primary, NCI Thesaurus)

A disease or the incidence of disease within a population.

(Morbidity, NCI Dictionary)

In the present analysis, cumulative incidence of tMDS/AML was less than 1 percent at 10 years after chemotherapy for most solid cancer types.

(Study finds elevated risk of certain rare blood cancers after chemotherapy for most solid tumors, National Institutes of Health)

We know that high-fat diets, which boost cholesterol levels, have been linked to an elevated incidence of cancer.

(Researchers Zero-In on Cholesterol's Role in Cells, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Diabetes-related ESKD – the advanced stage of chronic kidney disease – is rising faster than the overall incidence, and called for better diabetes management to tackle the problem.

(Managing diabetes key to lowering kidney disease, SciDev.Net)

Integrated program having an objective of reducing risk, incidence, and mortality from cancer and to enhancing the quality of life for cancer survivors.

(Cancer Control, NCI Thesaurus)

High incidence of hormone-dependent endometrial adenocarcinoma.

(BDII, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Low incidence of renal neoplasms (Snell 1967).

(BUF, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)