In a sentence
Six example sentences with morbidity, each labelled with its topic.
The hospital tracks morbidity after hip surgery and publishes the figures beside those of four comparable units nationwide.
Medicine
Morbidity from asthma rose in the three boroughs nearest the ring road and fell again after the traffic was rerouted.
Environment
Insurers price policies from morbidity tables, so a rise in diabetes among forty year olds shows up in premiums.
Finance
Economists estimate the cost of morbidity from the flu each winter in lost workdays rather than in hospital bills alone.
Economics
The minister cited falling measles morbidity to defend the vaccination budget against members who called it wasteful.
Politics
Epidemiologists map morbidity by district so that a rise in one neighborhood shows up months before any headline.
Science
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