Synonyms for mortality rate
mor·tal·i·ty rate

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1. mortality ratenoun

   Synonyms:
   death rate

   Antonyms:
   birth rate

2. mortality ratenoun

   The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.

   Synonyms:
   death rate

   Antonyms:
   birth rate

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. deathrate, death rate, mortality, mortality rate, fatality ratenoun

   the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year

   Synonyms:
   mortality, deathrate, death rate, fatality rate

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Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mortality rate

   Synonyms:
   Mortality

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1. Deborah Birx:

   We know the mortality rate in under-25 from the CDC data is less than 0.1 %, and so that has been holding, but until we know how many have been infected, we have no evidence that there is significant mortality in children without coexisting diseases. And that's what we're looking for right now, is to really make sure we've overturned every rock and understand that in deep detail.

2. Lisa Richardson:

   Black women continue to have the highest mortality rate from breast cancer, followed by white women.

3. George Rutherford:

   As the hospital systems get overwhelmed the mortality rate goes up proportionately.

4. Paul Oberstein:

   If you look at the overall trends, the incidence of colon cancer in this report has decreased from 66 per 100,000 in 1985 to 35 per 100,000 in 2019 – so almost half, changes in the mortality rate are even more impressive.

5. Jennifer Lewis:

   About a million people worldwide are in need of a kidney. So they have end-stage renal failure, and they have to go on dialysis, once you go on dialysis, you have essentially five years to live, and every year, your mortality rate increases by 15 %. Dialysis is very hard on your body. So this is really motivating to take on this grand challenge of printing organs.