Mortality
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Mortality is the state of being mortal, or susceptible to death; the opposite of immortality.
Mortality may also refer to:
- Fish mortality, a parameter used in fisheries population dynamics to account for the loss of fish in a fish stock through death
- Mortality (book), a 2012 collection of essays by Anglo-American writer Christopher Hitchens
- Mortality (computability theory), a property of a Turing machine if it halts when run on any starting configuration
- Mortality rate, a measure for the rate at which deaths occur in a given population
- Mortality/differential attrition, an error in the internal validity of a scientific study
See also
[edit]- Case fatality rate, the proportion of deaths within a designated population of people with a medical condition
- Cause of death
- Fulminant
- Mortality displacement, a (forward) temporal shift in the rate of mortality
- Mortality salience, awareness of one's eventual death
- Mortal (disambiguation)
- Morbidity and mortality (disambiguation)