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mortalidad
The state or quality of being mortal.
1714, Alexander Pope, letter to John Gay in Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons, London, 1735, Volume 2, p. 208, I have been perpetually troubled with sickness of late…
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, / But sad mortality o’er-sways their power, / How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, / Whose action is no stronger than…
mortalidad
The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.
In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people.
Some of the objects of enquiry would be […] what was the comparative mortality among the children of the most distressed part of the community, and those who lived rather more at t…
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