medical history
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈmɛdɪkəl ˈhɪstəri/
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historial médico
- Yes, but his condition is stable, and his medical history is confidential.
- past medical history
- a patient's medical history
- family medical history
When's the last time you went to the doctor and you were confident that the doctor knew your entire previous medical history?
- When's the last time you went to the doctor and you were confident that the doctor knew your entire previous medical history?
- Watson will be able instantly to know my entire medical history, every illness I ever had, every blood test or every DNA test I ever did.
Examples
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Students completed a brief demographic and medical history questionnaire before blood samples were taken.
Academic text (1999) -
Marianne's past medical history includes asthma, hypertension, and stable chronic kidney disease stage 3a.
Academic text (2015) -
But anyway, so they want to go through your medical history in detail.
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I wanna see his medical history and the cause of death.
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With your medical history, we have to be careful.
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Could I have your medical history card, please?
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I came here to discuss your medical history.
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I'm not a doctor here, but you have to look at their entire medical history.
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Samuel has a complicated medical history, including HIV/AIDS and multiple other complex medical conditions.
Academic text (2008) -
When healthcare providers take your medical history, they will ask at what age you began menstruation.
Synonyms
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2.3
A written file with a patient's health history and treatments
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4.1
A detailed written record of a person's past medical and personal information
The medical history a patient tells about their past health
How Detailed
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a record of a patient's past illnesses and treatments' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'medical' (relating to medicine/health care) with 'history' (an account of past events). This is a straightforward compositional noun phrase found cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Medical history comes from the simple idea of a short story about a person's health: medical means health and history means past events, so doctors wrote a patient's 'past illnesses and treatments' like a note in a book. That's why medical history means the record of someone's past health.