The part of a cartridge case opposite the bullet.

(medicine) A form of assessment in which the candidate obtains a full history and examination from a patient, and subsequently presents the case and discusses the issues therein with one or more examiners.

Whatever is the case.

Alternative spelling of uppercase

(medicine) A detailed report of the symptoms, signs, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of an individual patient, possibly containing a demographic profile of the patient, but usually describing an unusual or novel occurrence.

(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.

(grammar) Suffixaufnahme

A problem or situation that occurs only at an extreme (maximum or minimum) operating parameter or under other unusual operating conditions. / (loosely) Any unexpected input or user behaviour.