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Mortality is the state of being mortal, or susceptible to
death Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism. For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whole brain, including brainstem, and brain ...
; the opposite of
immortality Immortality is the concept of eternal life. Some modern species may possess biological immortality. Some scientists, futurists, and philosophers have theorized about the immortality of the human body, with some suggesting that human immorta ...
. Mortality may also refer to: *
Fish mortality Fish mortality is a parameter used in fisheries population dynamics to account for the loss of fish in a fish stock through death. The mortality can be divided into two types: * Natural mortality: the removal of fish from the stock due to causes ...
, 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) In computability theory, the mortality problem is a decision problem which can be stated as follows: :''Given a Turing machine, decide whether it halts when run on any configuration (not necessarily a starting one)'' In the statement above, the c ...
, a property of a Turing machine if it halts when run on any starting configuration *
Mortality rate Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time. Mortality rate is typically expressed in units of de ...
, a measure for the rate at which deaths occur in a given population * Mortality/differential attrition, an error in the
internal validity Internal validity is the extent to which a piece of evidence supports a claim about cause and effect, within the context of a particular study. It is one of the most important properties of scientific studies and is an important concept in reason ...
of a scientific study


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Case fatality rate In epidemiology, case fatality rate (CFR) – or sometimes more accurately case-fatality risk – is the proportion of people diagnosed with a certain disease, who end up dying of it. Unlike a disease's mortality rate, the CFR does not take int ...
, the proportion of deaths within a designated population of people with a medical condition *
Cause of death In law, medicine, and statistics, cause of death is an official determination of conditions resulting in a human's death, which may be recorded on a death certificate. A cause of death is determined by a medical examiner. The cause of death is ...
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Fulminant Fulminant () is a medical descriptor for any event or process that occurs suddenly and escalates quickly, and is intense and severe to the point of lethality, i.e., it has an explosive character. The word comes from Latin ''fulmināre'', to strike ...
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Mortality displacement In epidemiology, mortality displacement is the occurrence of deaths at an earlier time than they would have otherwise occurred, meaning the deaths are ''displaced'' from the future into the present. The displacement may be described as the resul ...
, a (forward) temporal shift in the rate of mortality *
Mortality rate Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time. Mortality rate is typically expressed in units of de ...
or death rate *
Mortality salience Mortality salience is the awareness by individuals that their death is inevitable. The term derives from terror management theory, which proposes that mortality salience causes existential anxiety that may be buffered by an individual's cultural ...
, awareness of one's eventual death *
Mortal (disambiguation) Mortal means susceptible to death; the opposite of immortal. Mortal may also refer to: * Mortal (band), a Christian industrial band * The Mortal, Sakurai Atsushi's project band * ''Mortal'' (novel), a science fiction fantasy novel by Ted Dekker ...
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Morbidity and mortality (disambiguation) Morbidity and mortality may refer to: *Morbidity and Mortality (journal), ''Morbidity and Mortality'' (journal), now known as ''Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'', a weekly publication by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention *Morbidit ...
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