Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A secondary crisis in an infectious disease.
- noun Methodical or critical judgment of a passage or work, with discussion of a question or questions arising from its consideration.
- noun An annotation or a treatise embodying such discussion or judgment; a critical note, criticism, or review.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something that follows a crisis; a secondary crisis, especially of a disease.
- noun A critical or analytical study, evaluation, or summing up, especially of a medical case history.
- noun rhetoric A quotation followed by a commentary.
- noun A commentary or annotation of a text.
- noun historical A Roman census in Egypt related to the determination of liability for
poll tax .
Etymologies
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epi- + crisis
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From Ancient Greek ἐπίκρισις (epikrisis, "determination, decision; judgment, award")
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Examples
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The hospital had already sent him my epicrisis apparent it's another word for this in English - it's the written summary of diagnosis and treatment from the hospital to the patient's primary doctor so he got a quick overview and gave me a couple of prescriptions for pain killers.
Running around magnio 2008
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