Prevalence
nounid
108811·updated May 18, 2026verified
(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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Entity Type
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Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- preponderance
- plural
- Prevalences
- possessive
- Prevalence's
- pluralpossessive
- Prevalences'
Framework definitions
- §1
- the quality of prevailing generally
- §2
- a superiority in numbers or amount
- §3
- (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
- §1 · legacy_primary
- (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 populationDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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