hypermortality
hypermortality noun: markedly high mortality, more than what might otherwise be expected (in any given disease or state of health).
Noun
hypermortality (uncountable)
- Markedly high mortality, 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...
- 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, Handbook on the Toxicology of Metals, 4th edition, volume 2...
Origin of hypermortality
From hyper- + mortality or hyper- + mortal + -ity.
Questions about hypermortality
- What does hypermortality mean?
- Hypermortality means markedly high mortality, more than what might otherwise be expected (in any given disease or state of health).
- What part of speech is hypermortality?
- Hypermortality is a noun.
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