prevalence

See also: prévalence

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French prévalence

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

• Chinese:

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

• Finnish: hallitsevuus (fi), vallitsevuus, prevalenssi
• French: prédominance (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: prevalência
• Spanish: prevalencia

See also

• incidence

Further reading

• “prevalence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “prevalence”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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Czech

Noun

prevalence f

1. prevalence (epidemiology)

Synonyms

• výskyt m