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  • noun The record and study of individual cases of disease.
  • noun Casuistry.

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  • noun Casuistry.
  • noun medicine The recording and study of individual cases.

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  • It is obvious from this illustration how the casuistics of Saint Al - phonsus strove to help in the individual case without hurting general law.

    CASUISTRY WERNER STARK 1968

  • This is the stand-point of Chinese and of Talmudic ethics, and to a certain extent, of the casuistics of some Romish moralists.

    Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

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