plural of index case

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

a class of phenomena that is a subset of a more general class / a theorem or other statement that follows directly from a more general statement

(transitive, intransitive, chiefly programming) To treat something as a special case; to handle in an explicitly different way.

The grammatical case used to modify a noun or related to a word modifying a noun.

(botany) A structure containing spores; a sporangium.

plural of spore case

Any of a set of counterexamples to the principle of alternate possibilities (PAP), which holds that an agent is morally responsible for an action only if they could have acted otherwise.

plural of Frankfurt case

The part of a cartridge case opposite the bullet.