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CASE-FATALITY PROPORTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The number of cases of a disease ending in death divided by the number of cases of the disease; usually expressed as a percentage or as the number of deaths per 1000 cases
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("case-fatality proportion" is a kind of...):
proportion (the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole)
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