likelihood of survival
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likelihood
noun[U]
uk/ˈlaɪ.kli.hʊd/us/ˈlaɪ.kli.hʊd/
the chance that something ...
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survival
noun
uk/səˈvaɪ.vəl/us/sɚˈvaɪ.vəl/
the fact of a person, organization, etc. continuing to live ...
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(Definition oflikelihoodandsurvivalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Instead, they focus exclusively on the medical factors of urgency of need and thelikelihoodofsurvival.
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Preference for place of care depended on beliefs regarding the availability of services and thelikelihoodofsurvival.
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Conversely, thelikelihoodofsurvivaldecreases considerably for higher levels of democracy and development in the less constrained dyad member.
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Fundamental to this definition is the idea that organisms seek to maximize theirlikelihoodofsurvival.
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Those who survived to 1999 indicate the greaterlikelihoodofsurvivalfor single women.
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Thelikelihoodofsurvivalwas determined to a large extent by the climate and the way it intersected with the exact age of the child and prevailing feeding practices.
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Smaller trees may be forced into flowering if theirlikelihoodofsurvivalto canopy stature is poor.
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They said that thelikelihoodofsurvivalis greater if people see a specialist in the discipline.
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Progress in medicine has resulted in an increasedlikelihoodofsurvivalamong children with certain disabling diseases and has produced remedies for previously fatal illnesses.
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Superficial necrosis is unsightly and can lead to unattractive scarring, but otherwise does not affect the patient'slikelihoodofsurvivalor physical capability to the same extent.
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