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1. the earliest documented case of a disease that is included in an epidemiological study (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | patient, |
| definition | : | a person who requires medical care (noun.person) |
| domain category | : | epidemiology, |
| definition | : | the branch of medical science dealing with the transmission and control of disease (noun.cognition) |
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