Mortality
41Mortality, infant — The death of an infant before his or her first birthday. The infant mortality rate is, by definition, the number of children dying under a year of age divided by the number of live births that year. The infant mortality rate is also called the… …
42Mortality rate, infant — The number of children dying under a year of age divided by the number of live births that year. The infant mortality rate is also called the infant death rate. The infant mortality rate is an important measure of the well being of infants,… …
43Mortality rate — A death rate. There are a number of different types of mortality rates as, for examples, the following: {{}}The fetal mortality rate: The ratio of fetal deaths to the sum of the births (the live births + the fetal deaths) in that year. The infant …
44mortality rate — 1) the rate at which the numbers in a population decrease with time due to various causes. The proportion of the total stock (in numbers) dying each year is the annual mortality rate. To facilitate calculations, mortality is expressed as an… …
45mortality rate — noun the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year • Syn: ↑deathrate, ↑death rate, ↑mortality, ↑fatality rate • Hypernyms: ↑rate • Hyponyms: ↑ …
46Mortality Medical Data System — The Mortality Medical Data System (MMDS) is used to automate the entry, classification, and retrieval of cause of death information reported on death certificates throughout the United States and in many other countries. The National Center for… …
47Mortality (computability theory) — In computability theory, the mortality problem is a decision problem which can be stated as follows: Given a Turing machine, decide whether it halts when run on any configuration (not necessarily a starting one) In the statement above, the… …
48mortality rate — the incidence of death in the population in a given period. The annual mortality rate is the number of registered deaths in a year, multiplied by 1000 and divided by the population at the middle of the year. See also: infant mortality rate,… …
49Mortality Table — A table that shows the rate of deaths occurring in a defined population during a selected time interval, or survival from birth to any given age. Statistics included in the mortality table show the probability a person s death before their next… …
50Mortality tables — Tables of probability that individuals of various ages will die within one year. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * mortality tables mortality tables ➔ table1 …
