prevalence

See also: prévalence

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EnglishEdit

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for prevalence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French prévalence

NounEdit

prevalence (countable and uncountable, plural prevalences)

1. The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension.
2. (epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.

TranslationsEdit

wide extension

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 流行 (zh) (liúxíng), 盛行 (zh) (shèngxíng), 普遍 (zh) (pǔbiàn), 廣泛 (zh), 广泛 (zh) (guǎngfàn)

• Finnish: hallitsevuus (fi), vallitsevuus, prevalenssi
• French: prédominance (fr) f

• Irish: leitheadúlacht f
• Serbo-Croatian: надмоћност f (nadmoćnost)
• Spanish: predominancia (es) f, predominio (es) m, preponderancia f, prevalencia f

number of cases compared to a total population

• Finnish: sairastavuus (fi)
• French: prévalence (fr)
• Italian: prevalenza (it)

• Portuguese: prevalência
• Spanish: prevalencia

Related termsEdit

• prevail
• prevalent

See alsoEdit

• incidence

Further readingEdit

• prevalence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• prevalence in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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CzechEdit

NounEdit

prevalence f

1. prevalence (epidemiology)

SynonymsEdit

• výskyt m