Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

serial interval

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.64 in modern English

Syllables: se-ri-al in-ter-val
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In epidemiology of communicable (infectious) diseases, the time period between the onset of symptoms with the primary patient and the onset of symptoms with the secondary patient (infected by primary).

Inflected Forms

serial intervals (plural)

Questions

What does serial interval mean?: In epidemiology of communicable (infectious) diseases, the time period between the onset of symptoms with the primary patient and the onset of symptoms with the secondary patient (infected by primary).

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