Look up: Prevalence-

1. Prevalence
   The number of cases of disease, infected persons, or persons with some other attribute, present at a particular time and in relation to the size of the population from which drawn. It can be a measurement of morbidity at a moment in time, e.g., the number of cases of hemophilia in the country as of the first of the year.
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2. prevalence
   [n] - (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 2. [n] - the quality of prevailing generally
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3. Prevalence
   Measure of how commonly a disease or disorder occurs in a population.
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4. Prevalence
   One of the main ways to measure the frequency of a disease in a particular population - it is the total number of cases that are present at any one time - covering both old and new cases.
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5. Prevalence
   Prevalence: The proportion of individuals in a population having a disease. Prevalence is a statistical concept referring to the number of cases of a disease that are present in a particular population at a given time.
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6. prevalence
   the number of existing cases of a disease in a given population at a specific time Category: Medicine • the number of cases of a disease in existence at a given time per unit population,usually 100,000 persons Category: Statistics • The total number of accidents and sick pers...
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7. Prevalence
   Prev'a·lence noun [ Latin praevalentia : confer French prévalence . See Prevail .] The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as, t...
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8. prevalence
   <statistics> The proportion of individuals in a population having a disease. ... (05 Mar 1998) ...
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9. prevalence
   noun the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread; `he was surprised by the prevalence of optimism about the future`
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10. 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
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11. prevalence
    (prev´ә-lәns) the number of cases of a specific disease present in a given population at a certain time; see also prevalence rate.
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12. Prevalence
    • (n.) The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as, the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor.
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13. prevalence
    (from the article `mental disorder`) Epidemiology is the study of the distribution of disease in different populations. Prevalence denotes the number of cases of a condition present at a ...
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14. prevalence
    prevalence, prevalent Widely existing, accepted, or practiced.
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15. prevalence
    
    • the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread
    • (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
    • a superiority in numbers or amount
    
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16. prevalence
    Type: Term Pronunciation: prev′ă-lĕns Definitions: 1. The number of cases of a disease existing in a given population at a specific period of time (period prevalence) or at a particular moment in time (point prevalence).
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17. Prevalence
    Reflects the number of patients with a certain disease in a population at a given time.
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18. Prevalence
    Reflects the number of patients with a certain disease in a population at a given time.
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19. Prevalence
    In epidemiology, the `prevalence` of a health-related state (typically disease, but also other things like smoking or seatbelt use) in a statistical population is defined as the total number of cases of the risk factor in the population at a given time, or the total number of cases in the population...
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20. Prevalence (of a disease)
    The total number of cases of a particular disease at a given moment of time, in a given population.
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21. Prevalence (of abundance)
    The proportion or percentage of habitable sites or areas in which a particular species is present.
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22. prevalence index
    <statistics> A weighted average measure of the sum of the frequency of occurrences of all species along a single transect or as calculated for a plant community by averaging the prevalence index of all sample transects through the community. ... (05 Mar 1998) ...
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23. prevalence models
    <epidemiology> Prevalence models are compartmental models dividing the host population into, for example, susceptible, latent, infectious and immune individuals. ... (05 Dec 1998) ...
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24. Prevalence of infection
    The proportion, or percentage, of a population that is infected with a specific parasite.
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25. prevalence rate
    the number of people in a population who have a disease at a given time; the numerator is the number of existing cases of disease at a specified time and the denominator is the total population. Time may be a point or a defined interval, and is traditionally the former if unspecified. Compare incidence rate.
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