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How to use incidence in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Incidence means the act of something happening; occurrence. Example: “A directed graph (A, R) is a set of vertices A together with an incidence relation R: if aRb then there is an edge going from A to B.”

More sentences with incidence

  • A directed graph (A, R) is a set of vertices A together with an incidence relation R: if aRb then there is an edge going from A to B.From the entry directed graph
  • It has been shown that including more disease-causing serotypes decreases the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease.2022 May 31, Madeleine Armstrong, “GSK goes back to its vaccine bread and butter”, in Evaluate Vantage, retrieved 09 May 2023. From the entry valency
  • We compared the incidence of PAD between schizophrenia and nonschizophrenia cohorts.2016 February 13, “A Population-Based Cohort Study on Peripheral Arterial Disease in Patients with Schizophrenia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry nonschizophrenia
  • Current chemotherapies for cancer are mostly cytotoxics with serious side effects and high incidence of drug resistance.2015 August 27, “A Novel Isoquinoline Derivative Anticancer Agent and Its Targeted Delivery to Tumor Cells Using Transferrin-Conjugated…. From the entry cytotoxic
  • Therefore, we will register time until TOF of more than 90 % and the incidence of recurarization.2015 August 5, Denise P. Veelo et al., “The effect of on-demand vs deep neuromuscular relaxation on rating of surgical and…. From the entry recurarization
  • Particulate matter air pollution contributes to lung cancer incidence in Europe.2013 July 13, Ole Raaschou-Nielsen et al., “Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts: prospective analyses from the…. From the entry particulate matter
  • The introduction of mammography to detect breast cancer early in its course sharply increased its incidence.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 44. From the entry mammography
  • In addition, the many fine restaurants of the area bring on a high incidence of double-parking.2009, Ira Gershkoff, Richard Trachtman, The Boston Driver's Handbook: The Almost Post Big Dig Edition, →ISBN. From the entry double-parking
  • In the non-ASD population, the incidence of savants is about 1 percent.2008, Ana Maria Rodriguez, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry ASD
  • Long-term renal transplant survivors display high incidences of hypogonadism, neoplasms, erectile dysfunction, and metabolic syndrome.2008, MC Awad, EA da Silva, E Souza, R Damião, “Clinical outcome of long-term renal transplant survivors: a nephrourologic approach”, in…. From the entry nephrourologic
  • Here again the consumption of a bioflavonoid (quercitin) was related to the incidence of CAD mortality.2004, Willem Serfontein, Did Your Doctor Tell You?, page 17. From the entry quercitin
  • I was unable, however, to find literature indicating a higher incidence of migraine in patients with photoepilepsy.2003 May, Randolph W. Evans, Jack Gladstein, “Confusional Migraine or Photoepilepsy?”, in Headache, volume 43, number 5, →DOI, page 507. From the entry photoepilepsy
  • A diet rich in sulforaphane is believed to be effective in reducing the incidence of breast cancer.1999, Alan Bryson, Healing Mind, Body & Soul: Healing The Mind And Soul, published 2000, page 100. From the entry sulforaphane
  • The incidence there was especially high among Indian and Pakistani teens, Romeo-and-Juliet couples.1997, Lucia Nevai, Normal: stories. From the entry Romeo and Juliet couple
  • Such high incidence may be due to prematurity, higher haematocrit possibly from foetofoetal transfusion etc.1985, Singapore Medical Journal. From the entry foetofoetal
  • I suspect that the incidence of astrophilia may have been constant throughout our complicated evolution.1979 July, Charles S. Houston, “Introductory Address: Lessons to be Learned from High Altitude”, in Postgraduate Medical Journal, volume…. From the entry astrophilia
  • We have a high incidence of mispitches by the USPS which further adds to the delay.1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service., Military Mail: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on…. From the entry mispitch
  • Programming results indicate a marked inequalness in the incidence of the 16 feeding systems.1965, Donald C. Taylor, Income Improving Adjustments and Normative Supply Responses for Hogs and Beef in Southwestern Minnesota, page 53. From the entry inequalness
  • Society is faced with the complex social problems that accompany this increasing incidence of multiple-handicapped children.1964, Beryl Godfrey, Orientation of Social Workers to the Problems of Deaf, page 66. From the entry misfavored
  • But we didn’t have any incidences here in the city of Kaukauna that made that part of our decision.”2026 July 9, Samantha Cavalli, quoting Tony Penterman, “Kaukauna drops Flock Safety contract as privacy debate grows in northeast…. From the entry Kaukauna
  • Region, ethnicity and combined numbers of all polydactylies, or only radial or ulnar-sided polydactyly, provide very different incidences in published series.2023, Christianne van Nieuwenhoven, Steven Hovius, “9: Thumb Polydactyly”, in Giorgio Pajardi, editor, Pediatric Hand Surgery, Springer…. From the entry polydactyly
  • We aim to determine the incidence of this non-spondylolisthetic cause of instability in conservatively managed patients and operated groups of patients.2018 April 4, Ashok K Rathod, Rakesh P Dhake, “Radiographic Incidence of Lumbar Spinal Instability in Patients with Non-spondylolisthetic…. From the entry spondylolisthetic
  • Despite their apparent increased incidence, we could not find any cases in the literature which describe the “avocado hand”.2017, G Rahmani, J Martin-Smith, P Sullivan, “The avocado hand”, in Irish Medical Journal, volume 110, number 10, →PMID, page 658. From the entry avocado hand
  • The 30-day mortality, stent patency, and the incidences of endoleaks and ischemia of the buttocks and lower limbs were compared.2015 July 21, “8-Year Long-Term Outcome Comparison: Two Ways to Exclude the Internal Iliac Artery during Endovascular Aorta Repair (EVAR)…. From the entry endoleak
  • However, all four states have had the most overheated mortgage markets and reportedly the highest incidence of jingle mail.2008, OECD Economic Surveys: United States 2008. From the entry jingle mail
  • Changes in the diet of a South Asian transmigratory population may be associated with an increase in incidence of childhood diabetes.2008, R. Balakrishnan et al., “Trends in Overweight and Obesity Among 5 - 7-year-old White and South Asian Children Born Between 1991 and…. From the entry transmigratory
  • However, there is no reliable evidence on the incidence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in the United Kingdom.2007 June 9, Lisa Hitchen, “Doctors advise women not to drink alcohol during pregnancy”, in British Medical Journal, volume 334, number…. From the entry spectrum disorder
  • Study objectives: To determine the incidence and mortality as well as to analyze the clinical and pathologic changes of aortic dissection.2000, Mészáros I, Mórocz J, Szlávi J, Schmidt J, Tornóci L, Nagy L, Szép L, “Epidemiology and clinicopathology of aortic dissection”, in…. From the entry clinicopathology
  • Runners with amenorrhea experience more running-related injuries than runners with eumenorrhea, and an increased incidence of stress fractures.1998, Emily M. Haymes, Priscilla M. Clarkson, “Minerals and Trace Minerals”, in Jacqueline R. Berning, Suzanne Nelson Steen, editors…. From the entry eumenorrhea
  • The disease incidence appeared to have a cyclic course.1995, Luis Enjuanes, Bernard A. M. Van der Zeijst, “Molecular Basis of Transmissible Gastroenteritis Virus Epidemiology”, in Stuart…. From the entry herd immunity
  • However, familial incidences have been documented for quite some time.1993, Frank P. K. Hsu, Daniele Rigamonti, Stephen L. Huhn, “Epidemiology of Cavernous Malformations”, in Issam A. Awad, Daniel L. Barrow…. From the entry familial
  • The role of social factors in determining disease incidence is illustrated by the alternative epidemiological situation seen in multicat households.1986, Melvyn F Greaves, L C Chan, Epidemiology of leukaemia and lymphoma. From the entry multicat
  • Another group of painful conditions called soft-tissue rheumatism rises sharply in incidence among women during the middle years.1982, Alice Lake, Our Own Years: What Women Over Thirty-Five Should Know About Themselves, page 197. From the entry tenonitis
  • An elimination or decrease in the incidence of genetic infirmities constitutes an improvement of the gene pool of the species.1977, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Evolution. From the entry euphenics
  • The incidence of sino-auricular block became less and less frequent in this animal within the next half hour.1955, Bruno Kisch, Experimental Medicine and Surgery - Volume 13, page 202. From the entry sino-auricular
  • In An-shan and Fu-shun where many Chinese work in mines, the malaria incidence is much higher than in other places.1946, Tsai-yu Hsiao, “Malaria”, in Epidemiology of the Diseases of Naval Importance in Manchuria, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, →OCLC…. From the entry An-shan
  • The incidence of stuttering is extremely high among dyslexiacs and the other types of speech defects are also fairly common.1946, The Scope, volumes 17-20, page 6. From the entry dyslexiac
  • The incidence of placenta prævia was 0.5 per cent.1931 autumn, W. W. King, “The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynæcology”, in Comyns Berkeley, editor, The Journal of Obstetrics and…. From the entry fœtûs
  • In addition to the strength of the Social Democratic candidates, I also examined the relationship between other political factors and the incidence of electoral fraud.2015, Isabela Mares, From Open Secrets to Secret Voting. From the entry electoral fraud
  • However, these previous experiments examined genetic variants, incidence of disease, or hyperbiliverdinemia, and thus may have documented patterns not typical of more common processes.2015 September 15, “Interactions between Biliverdin, Oxidative Damage, and Spleen Morphology after Simulated Aggressive Encounters in…. From the entry hyperbiliverdinemia

Meaning of incidence

  1. noun The act of something happening; occurrence.
  2. noun The extent or the relative frequency of something happening.
  3. noun The manner of falling; bearing or onus, as of a tax that falls unequally.

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Questions about incidence in a sentence

How do you use incidence in a sentence?
Incidence is used as a noun. For example: “A directed graph (A, R) is a set of vertices A together with an incidence relation R: if aRb then there is an edge going from A to B.”
What is a short sentence with incidence?
“The disease incidence appeared to have a cyclic course.”
What does incidence mean?
Incidence means the act of something happening; occurrence.

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