epicrisis
/ɪˈpɪk.ɹə.sɪs/
epicrisis noun: a critical or analytical study, evaluation, or summing up, especially of a medical case history.
Noun (1)
epicrisis (plural epicrises)
- 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
- But what if I don't have time to discharge you tomorrow. The epicrisis has to be written, you know.1967, Nicholas Bethell, David F. Burg, Cancer Ward, translation of original by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, page 469
- A quotation followed by a commentary.
- A commentary or annotation of a text.
- A Roman census in Egypt related to the determination of liability for poll tax.
Noun (2)
IPA/ˈɛp.ə.kɹaɪ.sɪs/
epicrisis (plural epicrises)
- Something that follows a crisis; a secondary crisis, especially of a disease.
Forms of epicrisis
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Origin of epicrisis
From Ancient Greek ἐπίκρισις (epíkrisis, “determination, decision; judgment, award”).
From epi- + crisis.
Questions about epicrisis
- What does epicrisis mean?
- Epicrisis means a critical or analytical study, evaluation, or summing up, especially of a medical case history.
- What part of speech is epicrisis?
- Epicrisis is a noun.
- How do you pronounce epicrisis?
- Epicrisis is pronounced /ɪˈpɪk.ɹə.sɪs/.
- What is the plural of epicrisis?
- The plural of epicrisis is epicrises.
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