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case history en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. The details of the history of some case (often medical).
    • After consulting her case history, the doctor prescribed methotrexate.
    • Public Relations people may be retained to put together press kits or to write feature articles or case histories. 2005, Shelly Field, Advertising and Public Relations, page 238:
    • The case history of a sample design from inception to final marketing was presented to the students.
    • When I was coming of age in the '60s, I squirmed and squiggled not to be pinned down by that great transfixer "the homosexual" which American psychiatry had made into such a weighty implement. To be stuck by that label, it seemed to me, would mean having to live my life as a case history in a medical text book. 1980 August 30, Tim Walton, “Queer Rights Strategy Argued in Quirky Dictionary”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 9:

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