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prevalencia — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • prevalence noun How common or widespread something is in a particular place or group.

Senses

prevalencia is used for these senses in English:

  • preemption (law) The supersession of a conflicting law from a lower jurisdiction by an overlapping law from a higher jurisdiction.
  • prevalence The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.
  • prevalence (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.

prevalence — full definition

  1. noun How common or widespread something is in a particular place or group.
  2. noun In epidemiology, the proportion of a population that has a given condition at a particular point or over a stated period, counting existing cases as well as new ones.

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