MORTALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mortality mean? 

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

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

  Familiarity information: MORTALITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORTALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality or state of being mortal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

impermanence; impermanency (the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations)

Antonym:

immortality (the quality or state of being immortal)

Derivation:

mortal (subject to death)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

death rate; deathrate; fatality rate; mortality; mortality rate

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

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)

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

infant deathrate; infant mortality; infant mortality rate (the death rate during the first year of life)

neonatal mortality; neonatal mortality rate (the death rate during the first 28 days of life)

 Context examples 

The researchers observed positive dose–response relationships between the dose absorbed by an organ and mortality from cancer at that site.

(Long-term increased risk of cancer death following common treatment for hyperthyroidism, National Institutes of Health)

If a drought comes, and plants can't close their stomata, they are subject to high levels of mortality due to water stress.

(Previously unknown mechanism causes increased forest water use, National Science Foundation)

When these age-related changes to blood cell composition were factored in, the researchers’ epigenetic age model predicted mortality from all causes better than previous measures of epigenetic age.

(DNA changes predict longevity, NIH)

The researchers also explored how an environment with trees, shrubs, and plants might lower mortality rates.

(Greenness around homes linked to lower mortality, NIH)

They are color coded to distinguish between regions with high, intermediate, and low rates of cancer mortality.

(Mortality Map, NCI Thesaurus)

Although it was originally used to predict mortality during surgery, it is now used to determine the prognosis, as well as the required strength of treatment and the necessity of liver transplantation.

(Child-Pugh Classification, NCI Thesaurus)

In this study, 2,600 people are being examined who suffer from Glioma which is a cancer that starts in the brain with a high mortality rate.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

In the analysis of the differences between high vs. low consumption of dairy products, no association was identified between dairy product consumption and increased risk of mortality.

(Adequate intake of milk and dairy products in different life stages helps prevent chronic diseases, University of Granada)

Finally, the researchers found that treating very old (24- to 27-month-old) mice with D+Q biweekly led to a 36 percent higher average post-treatment life span and lower mortality hazard than control mice.

(Senolytic drugs reverse damage caused by senescent cells in mice, National Institutes of Health)

Since 2010, malaria mortality rates have dropped 29 percent, again according to the WHO.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)