case history

noun

1. all the relevant information or material gathered about an individual, family, group, etc., and arranged so as to serve as an organized record and have analytic value for a social worker, student, or the like: used especially in social work, sociology, psychiatry, and medicine.

case history

noun

1. a record of a person's background, medical history, etc, esp one used for determining medical treatment

Word History and Origins

Origin of case history¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

To be sure, “The Hidden Spring” sometimes steers into heady territory as Solms tours through contemporary neuroscience, psychoanalytic theory, case histories and philosophy of mind.

From Washington Post

The latest penalties are calculated using each hospital case history between July 2016 and June 2019, so the flood of coronavirus patients that have swamped hospitals this year were not included.

From Fortune

Over the years, a spiral notebook sat by the phone and eventually became part case history, part family history.

From The Daily Beast

This sudden freedom followed a long and torturous case history, much of which traveled along paths well worn.

From The Daily Beast

In each case history is blent with speculation in nearly the same proportions.

From Project Gutenberg

He could have found that out by checking her case history—if Handicap Haven had one on file.

From Project Gutenberg

In each case history was rewritten and the past rediscovered in the light of the new age.

From Project Gutenberg

The case history places the wound in the right thigh, and the posterior surface of the leg lay next to the photographic plate.

From Project Gutenberg

What the case history of the Greeley Expedition proves is that in the determining number of men, the potential is sound.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• medical history