Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The condition of being prevalent.
- noun Medicine The total number of cases of a disease in a given population at a specific time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being prevalent.
- noun Superior strength, influence, or efficacy; predominance.
- noun General occurrence, practice, or reception; extensive existence or use: as, the prevalence of a custom or of a disease.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or condition of being prevalent; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality or condition of being
prevalent ; superior strength, force, or influence; general existence, reception, or practice; wide extension; as the prevalence of virtue, of a fashion, or of a disease; the prevalence of a rumor. - noun epidemiology The total number of cases of a
disease in the given statisticalpopulation at a given time. - noun epidemiology The total number of cases of a
disease in the given statisticalpopulation at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in the population.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a superiority in numbers or amount
- noun (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population
- noun the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread
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Examples
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"Not all of the increase in prevalence is a bad thing," said Dr. Sue Kirkman, the American Diabetes Association's senior vice president of medical affairs and community information.
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"Not all of the increase in prevalence is a bad thing," said Dr. Sue Kirkman, the American Diabetes Association's senior vice president of medical affairs and community information.
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(NSCIA) and Assembly of Moslems in Nigeria (AMIN), yesterday condemned the botched attempt by a Nigerian lad, Mallam Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, to blow up a Delta Airlines aircraft in Detroit, United States on Christmas day, blaming acts of terrorism and all forms of extreme behavioural tendencies on what it described as the prevalence of injustice in various spheres of life.
Thisday Online 2009
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Here’s the only screening question Struckman-Johnson used to access forced sex her term prevalence:
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According to the UNICEF, reported HIV prevalence is low in Egypt – ranging from 2,900 to 13,000 individuals - but there is very limited access to information for those most at risk and weak provisions for people living with HIV.
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It is high time to unite our efforts to strengthen the enforcement of this tobacco legislation to have significant reduction in prevalence of tobacco use, reduction in exposure to tobacco smoke and effective prevention of tobacco uptake.
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IIn a south central Ky county, the smoking prevalence is 1 in 2.6 citizens.
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Moreover, erroneous forms seem contagious: their prevalence is likely to affect those who are uncertain, thereby spreading the confusion.
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To illustrate, among those aged 55 to 64 years, diabetes prevalence is twice as high in the United States and only one fifth of this difference can be explained by a common set of risk factors.
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This prevalence is most impressive because of its newness.
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