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INDEX CASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The earliest documented case of a disease that is included in an epidemiological study
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("index case" is a kind of...):
patient (a person who requires medical care)
Domain category:
epidemiology (the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease)
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