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/fˈæməli hˈɪstəri/ Listen

Family history

noun

Part of a patient's medical history in which questions are asked in an attempt to find out whether the patient has hereditary tendencies toward particular diseases.

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"Family history" Quotes from Famous Books

... captain, were the favoured ones. The repast was sumptuous in my eyes, and unlike anything I had seen before. Lord Robert was all courtesy and kindness. He inquired of each of us what service we had seen, and particulars about our family history. ...

— Paddy Finn • W. H. G. Kingston

... quantity of personal and family history, admirable arrangements of details, and accuracy of information, this genealogical and heraldic dictionary is without a rival. It is now the standard and acknowledged book of reference upon all questions touching ...

— Notes on Nursing - What It Is, and What It Is Not • Florence Nightingale

... and hands out of the window, waved adieux and kisses innumerable to Home, regardless of our fellow-traveller in the corner, an old gentleman, with a yellow silk handkerchief on his head, who proved in the end a very pleasant companion. I remember that we told him our family history, with minutest particulars, and conjugated four regular Latin verbs by his orders; and that he rewarded our confidences and learning with the most clear, the most sweet, the most amber-coloured sticks of barley-sugar I have ever had the good fortune ...

— Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... was alone, Zachariah sat for some time without moving. He presently rose and opened the Bible again, which lay on the table—the Bible which belonged to his father—and turned to the fly-leaf on which was written the family history. There was the record of his father's marriage, dated on the day of the event. There was the record of his own birth. There was the record of his mother's death, still in his father's writing, but in ...

— The Revolution in Tanner's Lane • Mark Rutherford

... say so!" cried Fanny. "I suppose he would have told you all his family history if he had stayed. O dear me, he is such ...

— Five Little Peppers Abroad • Margaret Sidney

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