Index case

noun

Definitions

1.nounThe first documented patient in a disease epidemic within a population or the first case of interest in an epidemiological investigation; the case of patient zero.

Synonyms

index patient patient 0 patient zero propositus proposita prevalence incubation period primoinfection onset primary firstcomer incubation

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