morbidity
- Noun. The quality of being unhealthful, morbid.
- Noun. (medicine) The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected.
- Noun. (medicine, countable) An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness.
- Noun. (medicine, countable) Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery.
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