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case history collapse: detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatment

biography collapse: an account of the series of events making up a person's life

cogitate collapse: consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind

hagiography collapse: a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)

history collapse: the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"; all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge; "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history"; a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"; the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history"; the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history"

chronology collapse: the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events; a record of events in the order of their occurrence; an arrangement of events in time

annals collapse: a chronological account of events in successive years; reports of the work of a society or learned body etc

etymology collapse: the study of the sources and development of words; a history of a word

yesterday collapse: the day immediately before today; "it was in yesterday's newspapers"; the recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays"; on the day preceding today; "yesterday the weather was beautiful"; in the recent past; only a short time ago; "I was not born yesterday!"

exemplar collapse: something to be imitated; "an exemplar of success"; "a model of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major general"

obituary collapse: a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography

diary collapse: a personal journal (as a physical object); a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations

memoir collapse: an essay on a scientific or scholarly topic; an account of the author's personal experiences

resume collapse: take up or begin anew; "We resumed the negotiations"; return to a previous location or condition; "The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it"; assume anew; "resume a title"; "resume an office"; "resume one's duties"

memorial collapse: a structure erected to commemorate persons or events; a written statement of facts submitted in conjunction with a petition to an authority; a recognition of meritorious service

profile collapse: biographical sketch; an analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics; "a biochemical profile of blood"; "a psychological profile of serial killers"; a vertical section of the Earth's crust showing the different horizons or layers; a side view representation of an object (especially a human face); represent in profile, by drawing or painting; write about; "The author of this article profiles a famous painter"

prototype collapse: a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"

adventure collapse: a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)

origin collapse: properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"; the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero; an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

journal collapse: the part of the axle contained by a bearing; a record book as a physical object; a periodical dedicated to a particular subject; "he reads the medical journals"

idealism collapse: impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are; (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality

unoriginality collapse: the quality of being unoriginal; uncreativeness due to a lack of originality

specimen collapse: a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes; "they collected a urine specimen for urinalysis"; an example regarded as typical of its class

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