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CASE HISTORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does case history mean? 

CASE HISTORY (noun)
  The noun CASE HISTORY has 1 sense:

1. detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatmentplay

  Familiarity information: CASE HISTORY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CASE HISTORY (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)


 Context examples 


The case history of a subject.

(Performed Medical History Result, NCI Thesaurus)

NOTE(S): This case history may have been recalled by the subject or a caregiver or provided in their medical record.

(Performed Medical History Result, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)



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