Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

case-fatality proportion

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English

Syllables: case--fa-tal-i-ty pro-por-tion
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

8

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

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

Questions

What does case-fatality proportion mean?: 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

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