late mortality
1Mortality rate — Crude death rate by country Mortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit time. Mortality rate is typically expressed in units of… …
2Late-term abortion — Late term abortions are abortions which are performed during a later stage of pregnancy. Late term abortion is more controversial than abortion in general because the fetus is more developed and may even be viable. Definition of late term A late… …
3Late Roman army — The Late Roman army is the term used to denote the military forces of the Roman Empire from the accession of Emperor Diocletian in 284 until the Empire s definitive division into Eastern and Western halves in 395. A few decades afterwards, the… …
4mortality — /mawr tal i tee/, n., pl. mortalities. 1. the state or condition of being subject to death; mortal character, nature, or existence. 2. the relative frequency of deaths in a specific population; death rate. 3. mortal beings collectively; humanity …
5Perinatal mortality — Classification and external resources Infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality rates: United States, 1940 2005 DiseasesDB …
6Infant mortality — World infant mortality rates in 2008[1] Infant mortality is defined as the number of infant deaths (one year of age or younger) per 1000 live births. Traditionally, the most common cause worldwide was dehydration from diarrhea. However, the… …
7Gompertz-Makeham law of mortality — The Gompertz Makeham law states that death rate is a sum of age independent component (Makeham term) and age dependent component (Gompertz function), which increases exponentially with age. In a protected environment where external causes of… …
8Sweden during the late 19th century — History of Sweden PREHISTORIC …
9Compensation law of mortality — The compensation law of mortality (late life mortality convergence) states that the relative differences in death rates between different populations of the same biological species decrease with age, because the higher initial death rates in… …
10Old Mortality —   Author(s) Sir Walter Scott Country …
