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ambispective

ambispective adjective: having both retrospective and prospective components.

Adjective

ambispective (not comparable)

  1. Having both retrospective and prospective components
    • An ambispective cohort study of 129 patients with osteomyelitis was conducted and the proportions for qualitative variables and central tendency and dispersion measures for quantitative variables were calculated; the latter were tested for normality using the Shapiro-Wilk test.2015 December 18, “Differences in the Clinical Outcome of Osteomyelitis by Treating Specialty: Orthopedics or Infectology”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of ambispective

From ambi- + Latin spectum + -ive, on the pattern of retrospective and prospective.

Questions about ambispective

What does ambispective mean?
Ambispective means having both retrospective and prospective components.
What part of speech is ambispective?
Ambispective is an adjective.

Words near ambispective in the dictionary

  1. ambisexuals
  2. ambisinister
  3. ambisinistrous
  4. ambisonic
  5. ambisonics
  6. ambispective
  7. ambispectively
  8. ambisyllabic
  9. ambisyllabically
  10. ambisyllabicity
  11. ambisyllabics

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