CASE-TO-INFECTION PROPORTION

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Meaning:

The number of cases of a disease divided by the number of infections with the agent that causes the disease

Synonyms:

case-to-infection proportion; case-to-infection ratio

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("case-to-infection proportion" is a kind of...):

proportion (the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole)