family history

Family history is the systematic narrative and research of past events relating to a specific family, or specific families.
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Family history A summary of diseases present in immediate blood relatives–eg cardiovascular disease, DM, malignancy, cancer, etc, which may be [more]Family history - Community and Resources

Noun
1. 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
(hypernym) case history
(part-holonym) medical history, medical record, anamnesis

A record of a person's current and past illnesses, and those of his or her parents, brothers, sisters, children, and other family members. A family history shows the pattern of certain diseases in a family, and helps to determine risk factors for those and other diseases.