case-control
Medicine
adjective
(attributive) designating a type of epidemiological study in which each individual having a particular disease or other attribute of interest is compared with a control who is a similar individual without the disease or attribute, typically in order to identify aetiological factors; belonging, relating to, or based on such a study.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in The Lancet. Compare control.
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