case history

noun [C]

Definition

› a record of a person's health, development, or behaviour, kept by an official such as a doctor: The report was written after analysing data from the case histories of thousands of patients.Official documents

(Definition of case history noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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