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Noun: case-fatality proportion
  1. 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
    "The case-fatality proportion for this strain of flu was 2%"

Derived forms: case-fatality proportions

Type of: proportion