morbidity

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

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