Talk:morbidity


 * 1) What desease, illness, ailment or problem a patient has (that is being discussed, or addressed, or has a service being applied toward.)
 * When entering a service or procedure, clerks must be sure they apply the service code to the correct morbidity, especially when the patient is being treated for several different illnesses.
 * Is there such a meaning? (left verbatim) --Dennis Valeev 23:51, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * I've encountered this meaning working with the medical industry. When applying a service charge, some insurers will not check your service provided against all illnesses a patient has; instead they require a specific morbidity to be identified, then check to see if that service is applicable (in their billing rate tables) for that illness/morbidity.


 * Having entered this, from my general knowledege of medical jargon, I then checked it against m-w.com. Apparently, they don't recognise this use of the word, and instead have two completely different definitions. --Connel MacKenzie 00:00, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * So what do we do? --Dennis Valeev 00:01, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Apparently someone already took the initiative... --Connel MacKenzie 00:04, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * What do you mean? Sorry for pruning the whole article down. --Dennis Valeev 00:05, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Oh, that was you. I thought you said you left it verbatim - my mistake then.  I think some mention of that meaning should appear here - perhaps with some notation that it is a newer usage and/or that it's medical & insurance jargon.  By the way, where did you get those meanings from?  --Connel MacKenzie 00:25, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * From reliable sources. Anyways, feel free to add the aforementioned meaning to the article (coupled with the example), but mind to check your spelling. As to left verbatim I meant I copied it here and left it verbatim--Dennis Valeev 00:29, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * How's my spelling now? Can you think of a better way to word it?  --Connel MacKenzie 00:43, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Thumbs up! --Dennis Valeev 00:46, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Cognate terms (etymocognates) vs Semantically related terms
We should fix the titles of the categories to represent correctly the words.