Medical history
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The medical history or anamnesis (abbr. Hx) of a patient is information gained by a physician by asking specific questions, either of the patient or of other people who know the person and can give suitable information (in this case, it is sometimes called heteroanamnesis), with the aim of obtaining information useful in formulating a diagnosis and providing medical care to the patient.
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See also
- Catamnesis
- Genogram
- Historian (medical)
- Medical record
- Medicine
- Physical examination
- Psychoanalysis (Freud uses the term anamnesis to describe neurotics' recounting of their symptoms)
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