01. morbid 1with a strong and unhealthy interest in unpleasant subjects, especially death
morbid fascination/curiosity
a morbid fascination with instruments of torture
The trip was made all the worse by Frankie’smorbid fearof flying.
His head was full of morbid thoughts.
2 medical relating to or caused by a disease
a morbid gene —
morbidly adverb —morbidity /mɔːˈbɪdəti $ mɔːr-/ noun [uncountable]
02 regimen a special plan of food, exercise etc that is intended to improve your health SYN regime
regimen of
e.g. a regimen of morning stretching exercises
03 epidemiology= the study of the way diseases spread, and how to control them
—epidemiologist noun [countable] —
epidemiological /ˌepɪdiːmiəˈlɒdʒɪkəl $ -ˈlɑː-/ adjective
