Synonyms for mortality rate
mor·tal·i·ty rate

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1. mortality ratenoun

   Synonyms:
   death rate

   Antonyms:
   birth rate

2. mortality ratenoun

   The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.

   Synonyms:
   death rate

   Antonyms:
   birth rate

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. deathrate, death rate, mortality, mortality rate, fatality ratenoun

   the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year

   Synonyms:
   mortality, deathrate, death rate, fatality rate

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Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mortality rate

   Synonyms:
   Mortality

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1. George Rutherford:

   As the hospital systems get overwhelmed the mortality rate goes up proportionately.

2. Christopher Chabot:

   It's difficult because the blood is crucial for human health issues but the biomedical industry needs to keep the population steady, we suggest decreasing the time they are out of water, and maintaining an ambient temperature for transportation ... there is a lesser mortality rate if you keep them cool.

3. Russell Viner:

   It is not inevitable. We know that countries can turn around their infant mortality rate.

4. Isabelle Defourny:

   The high mortality rate is tragic for the populations and makes it even harder to contain the epidemic because the patients, in the absence of effective treatments, are understandably reticent about coming to centres.

5. Paul Oberstein:

   Changes in the mortality rate are even more impressive.