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What is a mortality rate?

What is a mortality rate? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.
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Though the WNV encephalitis in horses is rare, a considerable mortality rate is reported in the case of encephalitic horses.
Subarachnoid hemorrhage associated with aneurysmal rupture is a potentially lethal event with a mortality rate as high as 50 percent.
Using this information, Nightingale computed a mortality rate of 1,174 per 10,000 with 1,023 per 10,000 being from zymotic diseases.
Low prevalence is due to a low incidence of the disease but also a high mortality rate.
The mortality rate within the ghettos rose and people expired on the street.
The under-fives mortality rate had fallen steadily to 56 deaths per 1,000 births.

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