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 ...
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Mortality may also refer to:
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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
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''Mortality'' (book), a 2012 collection of essays by Anglo-American writer Christopher Hitchens
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Mortality (computability theory), a property of a Turing machine if it halts when run on any starting configuration
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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
See also
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Case fatality rate, the proportion of deaths within a designated population of people with a medical condition
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Cause of death
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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, a (forward) temporal shift in the rate of mortality
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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
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Mortality salience, awareness of one's eventual death
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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
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