case history

English

Noun

case history (plural case histories)

1. The details of the history of some case (often medical).

   After consulting her case history, the doctor prescribed methotrexate.

   The case history of a sample design from inception to final marketing was presented to the students.

   • 1980 August 30, Tim Walton, “Queer Rights Strategy Argued in Quirky Dictionary”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 9:

     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.

   • 2005, Shelly Field, Advertising and Public Relations, page 238:

     Public Relations people may be retained to put together press kits or to write feature articles or case histories.

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