epicrisis

Definitions

1. A critical or analytical study, evaluation, or summing up, especially of a medical case history.
2. Something that follows a crisis; a secondary crisis, especially of a disease.
3. A quotation followed by a commentary.
   rhetoric
4. A commentary or annotation of a text.
5. A Roman census in Egypt related to the determination of liability for poll tax.
   historical

Equivalents

Examples

“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...”

“But what if I don't have⟳ time to discharge you tomorrow. The epicrisis has to be written, you know⟳.”

“Haberal’s epicrisis report⟳, which was prepared on Oct. 16, 2009, was sent to the court nearly one year later.”

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