English Explanatory Dictionary

index case

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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).

Word forms

index case index cases

Related words

proband
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