0 the morbidity of a disease is how many people have it in a particular population:
morbidity rates
morbidity statistics
1 the fact of being too interested in unpleasant subjects, especially death:
She remembered her dead brother without morbidity.
Assessing the larger numbers of women suffering severe maternal morbidity would vastly increase their workload.
On both occasions, multimorbidity (presence of more than one condition) accounted for a quarter of the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity.
Psychological morbidity in bereaved parents decreases to levels similar to those among non-bereaved parents 7- 9 years after the loss.
Finally, if a definitive diagnosis is established sooner, it is possible that morbidity is reduced due to earlier commencement of appropriate therapies.
Balanced against this, is the higher incidence of transannular repair, and possibly higher morbidity and mortality.
This tendency only occurs where the general level of collection of morbidity statistics is low.
This is significant because of the risk of morbidity, and even mortality, to living donors.
Reoperation for significant residual regurgitation across the left atrioventricular valve continues to be the major cause for morbidity, both early and late.
