microlife

English

Etymology

From micro- +‎ life.

Noun

microlife (countable and uncountable, plural microlives)

1. (uncountable) Microorganisms collectively.
2. (countable) A unit of risk representing half an hour change of life expectancy.

   Coordinate term: micromort

   • 2012 February 16, David Spiegelhalter, “Microlives: A lesson in risk taking”, in BBC Future‎^[1]:

     If you have unhealthy habits, it costs you microlives. If you smoke, each cigarette reduces your life expectancy on average by around 15 minutes, so two cigarettes loses you a microlife.

Further reading

• microlife on Wikipedia.Wikipedia