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epicrises

epicrises is the plural of epicrisis.

Meaning of epicrisis

Noun (1)

epicrisis (plural epicrises)

  1. A critical or analytical study, evaluation, or summing up, especially of a medical case history.
    • It would be well if every practitioner would go over his list of patients from time to time and attempt an epicrisis in each one. He will often be surprised at what he finds, and his clinical judgment should be greatly improved...1916, Albion Walter Hewlett, Monographic Medicine
  2. (rhetoric) A quotation followed by a commentary.
  3. A commentary or annotation of a text.
  4. (historical) A Roman census in Egypt related to the determination of liability for poll tax.

Noun (2)

epicrisis (plural epicrises)

  1. Something that follows a crisis; a secondary crisis, especially of a disease.

Questions about epicrises

What is epicrises the plural of?
Epicrises is the plural of epicrisis.

Words near epicrises in the dictionary

  1. epicranius
  2. epicratonic
  3. epicriid
  4. epicriids
  5. epicriptine
  6. epicrises
  7. epicrisis
  8. epicritic
  9. epicritique
  10. epicritiques
  11. epics

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