epicrisis

From Ancient Greek ἐπίκρισις (epíkrisis, “determination, decision; judgment, award”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈpɪk.ɹə.sɪs/

epicrisis (plural epicrises)

1. A critical or analytical study, evaluation, or summing up, especially of a medical case history.
   • 1916, Albion Walter Hewlett, Monographic Medicine:

     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...

   • 1967, Nicholas Bethell, David F. Burg, Cancer Ward, translation of original by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, page 469:

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

   • 2011, Hurriyet Daily news, January 12

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

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.

epi- +‎ crisis

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛp.ə.kɹaɪ.sɪs/

epicrisis (plural epicrises)

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

• Merriam-Webster Online

From Ancient Greek ἐπίκρισις (epíkrisis).

• IPA^(key): /epiˈkɾisis/ [e.piˈkɾi.sis]
• Rhymes: -isis
• Syllabification: e‧pi‧cri‧sis

epicrisis f (plural epicrisis)

1. epicrisis

• “epicrisis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014