SURVIVORSHIP
\səvˈa͡ɪvəʃˌɪp], \səvˈaɪvəʃˌɪp], \s_ə_v_ˈaɪ_v_ə_ʃ_ˌɪ_p]\
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The proportion of survivors in a group, e.g., of patients, studied and followed over a period, or the proportion of persons in a specified group alive at the beginning of a time interval who survive to the end of the interval. It is often studied using life table methods.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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In legal medicine, this word means the probability that any individual has survived others in an accident, which has been fatal to all. This is often an important question, connected with the inheritance of property, and on which physiology can rarely afford more than presumptive grounds for conclusion.
By Robley Dunglison
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