From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Sociology, Deathmortalitymor‧tal‧i‧ty /mɔːˈtæləti $ mɔːr-/ ●○○ noun (plural mortalities)1[uncountable] (also mortality rate / $ .ˈ.../)SSMX the number of deaths during a particular period of time among a particular type or group of people
Mortality from heart disease varies widely across the world.infant/child/maternal/adult mortality
an appallingly high infant mortality rate (=number of babies who die)2[uncountable]DIE the condition of being human and having to dieOPP immortality
My mother’s death forced me to face the fact of my own mortality.3[countable] technical a death
mortalities from cancerExamples from the Corpusmortality• Cancermortality among older people is high.• Fetal, infant and early childhoodmortality and maternityrelated deaths to women of reproductive age are the classes of mortality examined.• And we are also experiencing mortality. in some areas very rapid mortality.• Nevertheless, the reasons for the strikingdecline in infant mortality in this period remain rather mysterious.• In the high grade group, none of the variables or different modes of treatmentinfluencedmortality.• Whatever way they sliced the statistics, the mortality of the redspruce was dramatic and frightening.• Doctors are reminded of their mortality every day.• Totalmortality and each of the outcomes of coronaryheartdisease increased as severity of periodontal disease increased.infant/child/maternal/adult mortality• The correlation between infant mortality and fertility has not been well documented.• Tampa GeneralHospitalcreated a subsidiary to combatinfant mortality.• Although food is more plentiful these days, child mortality remains dangerously high.• Firstly people are living longer, there is lowinfant mortality, but the average age of the population is rising as well.• The decline of infant mortality makes it easier to accept the idea of smaller family size.• Early maturity also reducesmalejuvenile mortality and thus opposesadult mortality.• In a region where infant mortality is high, the argument struck a responsivechord.• From the 1840s child and young adult mortalitycontributed most of the decline.own mortality• Was he contemplating his own mortality?• The spectator has come for blood, but did not buy his ticket to be reminded of his own mortality.• It was an opportunity to rehearse for my own mortality, right?• The dying planet has a metaphysicalrelationship to my own mortality and to that extent my inquiry into landscape is inherently ironic.• Above all, experiencing our parents' death forces us to face the fact of our own mortality.• This means that they had had a heightenedawareness of their own mortality more or less throughout the disabilitycareer.• Time forces people, however brilliant, to taste their own mortality.• They are reconciling themselves to their own mortality.
