medical record. n. A chronological written account of a patient's examination and treatment that includes the patient's medical history and complaints, the physician's physical findings, the results of diagnostic tests and procedures, and medications and therapeutic procedures.
An incumbent is an individual who is responsible for a specific office within a corporation or government position; this person has an obligation to the position or office she holds.
For example, in the 2012 United States presidential election, Barack Obama was the incumbent, because he had been the president in the previous term while the election sought to determine the president for the current term.A race without an incumbent is referred to as an open seat.lections featuring an incumbent, on the other hand, are as Guy Molyneux puts it, fundamentally a referendum on the incumbent.. Voters will first grapple with the record of the incumbent. Only if they decide to fire the incumbent do they begin to evaluate whether the challenger is an acceptable alternative.