prevalence

See also: prévalence

English

Etymology

From Middle French prévalence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛvələns/
• (variant) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈveɪləns/ (modelled on prevail)

• Audio (US)

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Noun

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 terms

• prevail
• prevalent

Translations

wide extension

• Bulgarian: преобладаване n (preobladavane)
• 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, verspreiding (nl) f
• Finnish: hallitsevuus (fi), vallitsevuus, prevalenssi (fi)
• French: prédominance (fr) f
• German: weite Verbreitung f, Vorherrschen n, Verbreitetsein n, starkes Vorkommen n
• Indonesian: prevalensi (id)
• Irish: leitheadúlacht f
• Romanian: prevalență (ro) f
• Russian: преобладание (ru) n (preobladanije)
• Serbo-Croatian: надмоћност f (nadmoćnost)
• Spanish: predominancia (es) f, predominio (es) m, preponderancia f, prevalencia (es) f

number of cases compared to a total population

• Bulgarian: инцидентност f (incidentnost)
• Dutch: overwicht (nl) n
• Finnish: sairastavuus (fi)
• French: prévalence (fr)
• German: Prävalenz (de) f, Kennzahl für die Häufigkeit f
• Indonesian: prevalensi (id)
• Italian: prevalenza (it)
• Portuguese: prevalência
• Spanish: prevalencia (es)

See also

• incidence

Further reading

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

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈprɛvalɛnt͡sɛ]

Noun

prevalence f

1. (epidemiology) prevalence

   Synonym: výskyt

Related terms

• See vale

Further reading

• prevalence in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• prevalence in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• prevalence in Internetová jazyková příručka