Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun case-fatality_proportion

1 sense of case-fatality proportion

Sense 1
case-fatality proportion -- (the number of cases of a disease ending in death divided by the number of cases of the disease; usually expressed as a percentage or as the number of deaths per 1000 cases)
       => proportion -- (the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole)