mortality : Idioms & Phrases


Bill of mortality

  • an official statement of the number of deaths in a place or district within a given time; also, a district required to be covered by such statement; as, a place within the bills of mortality of London.
Webster 1913

infant mortality

  • noun the death rate during the first year of life
    infant deathrate; infant mortality.
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infant mortality rate

  • noun the death rate during the first year of life
    infant deathrate; infant mortality.
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Law of mortality

  • a mathematical relation between the numbers living at different ages, so that from a given large number of persons alive at one age, it can be computed what number are likely to survive a given number of years.
Webster 1913

mortality rate

  • noun the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
    fatality rate; deathrate; death rate; mortality.
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mortality table

  • noun an actuarial table indicating life expectancy and probability of death as a function or age and sex and occupation etc
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neonatal mortality

  • noun the death rate during the first 28 days of life
    neonatal mortality.
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neonatal mortality rate

  • noun the death rate during the first 28 days of life
    neonatal mortality.
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Table of mortality

  • a table exhibiting the average relative number of persons who survive, or who have died, at the end of each year of life, out of a given number supposed to have been born at the same time.
Webster 1913