prevalence

See also: prévalence

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French prévalence

NounEdit

prevalence (countable and uncountable, plural prevalences)

1. The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.
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.

Related termsEdit

• prevail
• prevalent

TranslationsEdit

wide extension

• Chinese:

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

• Dutch: het heersen, het algemeen voorkomen
• 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

• Dutch: overwicht (nl) n
• Finnish: sairastavuus (fi)
• French: prévalence (fr)
• Italian: prevalenza (it)

• Portuguese: prevalência
• Spanish: prevalencia

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