Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 an investigation into the details and activities of a person during his/her lifetime; one's background. 2 (context medicine English) Information concerning a person's diseases and medical disorders suffered during his lifetime; especially useful if the disorders are genetic.
WordNet
n. an account of the series of events making up a person's life [syn: biography, life, life story]
the general progression of your working or professional life; "the general had had a distinguished career"; "he had a long career in the law" [syn: career]
Wikipedia
In sociological and anthropological research, a life history is the overall picture of the informant's or interviewee's life. The purpose of the interview is to be able to describe what it is like to be this particular person, that is, the one being interviewed.
Life history may refer to:
- Biological life cycle, a period all different generations of a species succeeding each other through means of reproduction
- Life history theory in ecology and evolution refers to the timing of key events in an organism's lifetime, as shaped by natural and/or sexual selection.
- Evolutionary history of life, the processes by which living and fossil organisms evolved
- Life history (sociology), the overall picture of an informant's or interviewee's life
- Medical life history, information gained by a physician by asking specific questions of a patient