patient zéro

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pa.sjɑ̃ ze.ʁo/
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Noun

patient zéro m (plural patients zéro)

  1. (epidemiology) patient zero, index case (the first documented patient in a disease epidemic within a population or the first case of interest in an epidemiological investigation)
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