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What does mortality mean?

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Noun
  1. The condition of being susceptible to death.
  2. (demography) The death rate of a population.
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Actual juvenile mortality rates for large mammals are generally higher than indicated by life tables based on bone assemblages.
They estimate that mortality from the famine was in the range of four to six million deaths.
She loved them for their mortality, for their casual acceptance of the dark, and for their quotidian lives, so unlike her own.
Such hypotheses have rarely been quantitatively evaluated with direct measures of disease-related mortality.
It is reminiscent of Pessoa's poems on Spring in its acute awareness of the poet's mortality.
The cages were covered with wet marsh grass to minimize mortality from desiccation and heat stress during the lowtide period.

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