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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. index cases: Merriam-Webster
  2. index cases: Collins English Dictionary
  3. index cases: Vocabulary.com
  4. index cases: Wiktionary
  5. index cases: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. index cases: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. index cases: Medical dictionary

(Note: See index_case as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (index case)

noun:  (epidemiology) The first documented case in a disease epidemic within a population or the first case of interest in an epidemiological investigation: the case of patient zero (the index patient).
▸ Also see index_case


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