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• n  the relative incidence of a particular disease
• n  an abnormally gloomy or unhealthy state of mind
  his fear of being alone verges on morbidity
• n  the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you

• And it's that, you know, that sense of morbidity that people do have.
• Morbidity means the number of sick, mortality the number of dead.
• Though his subject matter was grisly, Carr maintained that "morbidity has nothing to do with it, any more than with solving chess or mathematics problems.

• morbidness
• unwholesomeness

• wholesomeness

News & Articles

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• Anti-smoking ads increase odds of quitting in 14 countries - May 30, 2013 - Media Advisory
  Awareness of anti-smoking messages on television, radio, or billboards, or in newspapers or magazines, significantly increased the odds that current smokers intend to quit in 14 of 17 countries surveyed, according to a study released in this week's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  June 10, 2013 - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Quotes

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• Ron Sims in Radio Iowa
  We can predict life outcomes by zip code; we can predict long-term earning of children by zip code; morbidity rates by zip code anywhere in the United States,Sims said during a news conference.
• Ernest Bai Koroma in AFP
  Koroma said his government would abolish "all user fees for pregnant and lactating mothers and under-five children as from April to address the high incidence of maternal mortality and morbidity."