medical history

noun

: a record of a past medical problems and treatments that a person has had

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Know your medical history, including dates of surgeries, major illnesses and current medications. Robert D. Greenberg, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2025 The median age of children with the disease is 5, and most children with ANE were healthy, with no significant medical history, beforehand. Andrew Zeng, Mercury News, 31 July 2025 Most of medical history reads like a long, triumphal march: surgeries refined, diseases vanquished, life spans extended. Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025 His medical history includes high cholesterol, coronary artery disease, and a past COVID-19 hospitalization in 2020. Amanda Castro hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for medical history

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“Medical history.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/medical%20history. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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