Associations to the word «Prevalence»
Noun
- Incidence
- Obesity
- Hiv
- Epidemiology
- Aids
- Hypertension
- Diabetes
- Malnutrition
- Dsm
- Saharan
- Dementia
- Hepatitis
- Asthma
- Tb
- Disorder
- Adolescent
- Mortality
- Syphilis
- Homelessness
- Schizophrenia
- Malaria
- Autism
- Estimate
- Anemia
- Deficiency
- Retardation
- Severity
- Infection
- Correlate
- Disease
- Cohort
- Smoking
- Epidemic
- Adult
- Iodine
- Syndrome
- Impairment
- Allergy
- Unicef
- Tuberculosis
- Allele
- Lifetime
- Dysfunction
- Dm
- Rate
- Disability
- Abuse
- Expectancy
- Smoker
- Blindness
- Prevention
- Onset
- Abnormality
- Epilepsy
- Carcinoma
- Adolescence
- Autopsy
- Vaccination
- Genes
- Diagnosis
- Survey
- Intolerance
- Arthritis
- Ethnicity
- Homosexuality
- Rape
- Parasite
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
PREVALENCE, noun. The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension.
PREVALENCE, noun. (epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.
Dictionary definition
PREVALENCE, noun. The quality of prevailing generally; being widespread; "he was surprised by the prevalence of optimism about the future".
PREVALENCE, noun. (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population.
PREVALENCE, noun. A superiority in numbers or amount; "a preponderance of evidence against the defendant".
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