MORTALITY RATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mortality rate mean? 

• MORTALITY RATE (noun)
  The noun MORTALITY RATE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: MORTALITY RATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORTALITY RATE (noun)

Sense 1

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 rate" is a kind of...):

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

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

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 scientists consistently found lower mortality rates in women as levels of trees and plants increased around their homes.

(Greenness around homes linked to lower mortality, NIH)

That leaves more than 70 percent of the higher mortality rates tied to a weak nose unexplained.

(Declining Sense of Smell Linked to Risk of Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses such as the H5N1 and H7N9 strains have a mortality rate of about 50% in humans.

('Significant breakthrough' in understanding the deadly nature of pandemic influenza, University of Cambridge )

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

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

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)

The highest mortality rates from asthma were recorded in Thailand, Mauritius, Fiji, the Philippines and South Africa.

(Smoother walls healthier for lungs, SciDev.Net)

Individuals with this mutation had a lower incidence of type 2 diabetes, were less obese, had a lower incidence of heart failure, and had a lower mortality rate when compared to those without the mutation, even after adjusting for dietary intake (including total calories, sodium, and sugars).

(Gene mutation points to new way to fight diabetes, obesity, heart disease, National Institutes of Health)

Thanks to this selectivity, panobinostat is only generated within the cells that the catalyst has reached, and hence it preferentially causes the death of the original tumour cells, while the mortality rate among other cells is much lower.

(Scientists successfully deliver “Trojan horse” catalysts into cancerous tumour cells to destroy them from within, Universities of Granada)

The anthropological study of the remains, which are mixed together forming ossuaries, has shown that individuals of both genders and of all ages accessed to the funerary ritual, with little presence of children despite the high mortality rates.

(The necropolis of El Barranquete in Níjar (Almería), proven to have been used for funerary rituals throughout the Bronze Age, University of Granada)

But smell didn't appear to make a meaningful difference in mortality rates for people who were in fair to poor health at the start of the study.

(Declining Sense of Smell Linked to Risk of Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)