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   mortality

   /mɔːˈtalɪti/

   noun

   • 1. the state of being subject to death: "the work is increasingly haunted by thoughts of mortality" Similar impermanencetemporalitytransienceephemeralityimpermanencyperishabilityhumanitycorporealityearthlinessrare:corporalityOpposite immortality
   • 2. death, especially on a large scale: "the causes of mortality among infants and young children" Similar deathloss of lifedying
   • ▪ the number of deaths in a given area or period, or from a particular cause: "post-operative mortality was 90 per cent for some operations" Similar impermanencetemporalitytransienceephemeralityimpermanencyperishabilityhumanitycorporealityearthlinessrare:corporalityOpposite immortality

   Word Origin late Middle English: via Old French from Latin mortalitas, from mortalis (see mortal).

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2. www.britannica.com › science › deathDeath | Definition, Types, Meaning, Culture, & Facts | Britannica

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   3 days ago · Death, the total cessation of life processes that eventually occurs in all living organisms. The state of human death has always been obscured by mystery and superstition, and its precise definition remains controversial, differing according to culture and legal systems.

3. www.britannica.com › science › deathDeath - Mortality, Grief, Loss | Britannica

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   3 days ago · Many dictionaries define death as “the extinction or cessation of life” or as “ceasing to be.” As life itself is notoriously difficult to define—and as everyone tends to think of things in terms of what is known—the problems in defining death are immediately apparent.

4. ourworldindata.org › part-one-how-many-people-dieHow many people die from extreme temperatures, and how could ...

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   5 days ago · To estimate temperature-related deaths, researchers estimate what is called the temperature-mortality relationship. This tells us how our risk of dying differs across the range of possible temperatures.

5. ourworldindata.org › part-two-how-many-people-dieHow many people die from extreme temperatures, and how could ...

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   5 days ago · In this article, I examine the potential changes in temperature-related mortality — including both hot and cold deaths — and where people will be impacted most. When I spoke to researchers on this topic, they were keen to emphasize how uncertain future impacts are.

6. www.britannica.com › science › population-biologyPopulation | Definition, Trends, & Facts | Britannica

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   4 days ago · population, in human biology, the whole number of inhabitants occupying an area (such as a country or the world) and continually being modified by increases (births and immigrations) and losses ( deaths and emigrations).

7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Life_expectancyLife expectancy - Wikipedia

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   3 days ago · Mathematically, life expectancy is denoted [a] and is the mean number of years of life remaining at a given age , with a particular mortality. [7] . Because life expectancy is an average, a particular person may die many years before or after the expected survival.

8. www.nature.com › articles › s41591/024/03117-0Disparities in air pollution attributable mortality ... - Nature

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   5 days ago · Disparities in mortality attributable to PM2.5 air pollution was more pronounced by race/ethnicity than other sociodemographic factors such as education, rurality and social vulnerability index ...