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CASE HISTORY
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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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