morbid
3
7.7
- adjective
- /ˈmɔrbɪd/
- Specialized
:
mórbido
- Infectious mediastinitis and pseudoaneurysm formation is a very rare but highly morbid complication due to subsequent rupture.
- morbid obesity
- morbid conditions
I'm sure that you know that being obese or morbidly obese is not healthy.
- I'm sure that you know that being obese or morbidly obese is not healthy.
- And the door opens and there's this morbidly obese gentleman.
- Could you ever sleep with a girl that was like morbidly obese?
- These become either bestial or morbid conditions.
- You can't imagine how many people that I, I love are morbidly obese.
- OK, so here is the hard reality that I know all too well growing up in a morbidly obese family.
- If the ads start to resemble and put people like this as our aspirational targets, it makes it comfortable and OK to be morbidly obese.
- And so I broke in and he was morbidly obese and he had he had lost his job and become addicted to to online gambling.
- And not only that had had made it worse from years of, you know, playing football and being morbidly obese for decades afterwards that afterwards.
Examples
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Cardiac arrhythmias, respiratory failure, and congestive heart failure were the most common morbid events (Table 2).
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The doctors were concerned about the patient's morbid symptoms that indicated a serious underlying condition.
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Nearly a third of patients who had a postoperative morbid event died.
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In patients discharged before 30 days, morbid conditions were assessed only up to the discharge date.
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Thus, the morbid impact and economic burdens of delayed surgery are important.
Academic text (1995) -
Sleep-disordered breathing, including obstructive sleep apnea, is a common and morbid health problem.
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Research has shown that morbid obesity can lead to various health complications, including heart disease.
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He was diagnosed with a morbid illness that required long-term treatment and care.
Synonyms
26
3.7
Having an illness or infection that makes it not healthy
9
7.5
Relating to disease or its study
1
7.2
Related to or caused by disease
Antonyms
How Diseased
- Specialized
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9.1
- Specialized
3
7.7
26
3.7
117
1.6
695
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Morbid comes from the Latin morbus meaning 'disease'. In medicine, something is called 'morbid' when it is caused by or shows the effects of disease, so the word still means 'diseased' or 'pathological'.