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.

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   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

   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