CASE HISTORY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("case history" is a kind of...):

account; chronicle; history; story (a record or narrative description of past events)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "case history"):

family history (part of a patient's medical history in which questions are asked in an attempt to find out whether the patient has hereditary tendencies toward particular diseases)

anamnesis; medical history; medical record (the case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient)

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