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hypermorbidity

hypermorbidity noun: markedly high morbidity (illness), more than what might otherwise be expected (in any given disease or state of health).

Noun

hypermorbidity (uncountable)

  1. Markedly high morbidity (illness), more than what might otherwise be expected (in any given disease or state of health).
    • Hypermorbidity in respiratory symptoms among smokers in the population sample is in good agreement with other reports. The fact that this hypermorbidity was found also among smokers in smoking-discordant monozygotic twin pairs by use of the twin-control method speaks in favor of a causal...1966, R. Cederlof, L. Friberg, E. Jonsson, L. Kaij, “Respiratory symptoms and angina pectoris in twins with reference to smoking habits”, in Arch Environ Health, volume 13, number 6, →DOI, pages...
    • The hypermorbidity of smokers causes an extra need for medical care.1988, Masironi, R.; Rothwell, K., “[Trends in and effects of smoking in the world] [English-language abstract of article text in French].”, in World Health Stat Q, volume 41, numbers 3-4, →PMID...

Examples of hypermorbidity in a sentence

  • Hypermorbidity in respiratory symptoms among smokers in the population sample is in good agreement with other reports.1966, R. Cederlof, L. Friberg, E. Jonsson, L. Kaij, “Respiratory symptoms and angina pectoris in twins with reference to smoking habits”...
  • Brieger et al. (1954) reported hypermortality and hypermorbidity among workers in an abrasive industry.2015, Carolyn A. Tylenda, Dexter W. Sullivan, Bruce A. Fowler, [], edited by Gunnar F. Nordberg, Bruce A. Fowler, and Monica Nordberg...

Origin of hypermorbidity

From hyper- + morbidity or hyper- + morbid + -ity.

Questions about hypermorbidity

What does hypermorbidity mean?
Hypermorbidity means markedly high morbidity (illness), more than what might otherwise be expected (in any given disease or state of health).
How do you use hypermorbidity in a sentence?
Hypermorbidity in respiratory symptoms among smokers in the population sample is in good agreement with other reports.
What part of speech is hypermorbidity?
Hypermorbidity is a noun.

Words near hypermorbidity in the dictionary

  1. hypermonopoles
  2. hypermonosyllabic
  3. hypermonosyllable
  4. hypermonosyllables
  5. hypermoral
  6. hypermorbidity
  7. hypermoron
  8. hypermorons
  9. hypermorph
  10. hypermorphic
  11. hypermorphism

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