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Definition of Medical history
1. Noun. The case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient.
Generic synonyms: Case History
Terms within: Family History
Derivative terms: Anamnestic
Definition of Medical history
1. Noun. Details about a patient's previous medical experiences, such as operations and medications taken. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Medical History
Literary usage of Medical history
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biosafety in the Laboratory: Prudent Practices for the Handling and Disposal by National Research Council (U. S.) (1989)
"At the time of hiring, it is prudent to give all prospective employees a
questionnaire that elicits an occupational and medical history. ..."
2. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"... "Signs of the Moribund Condition," and a serial contribution to the " New York
Medical Register" relating to the "medical history of New York City. ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"... so constantly recurring, a source of aid in his studies, as they would serve
to recall some interesting event in medical history related to the object ..."
4. Contributions to Medical and Biological Research by William Osler (1919)
"THE medical history OF TWO CRUSADES BY JAMES J. WALSH, MD, NEW YORK PERHAPS
nothing would seem more improbable, not to say quite impossible, to most of the ..."
5. Outlines of the History of Medicine and the Medical Profession by Henry Ebenezer Handerson, Johann Hermann Baas (1889)
"... medical history has always enjoyed a chair of its own, and has not en assigned
as an incidental branch to the teacher of some secondary partment, ..."
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