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Definition of empiric in English: empiricadjective ɛmˈpɪrɪkɪmˈpɪrɪkəmˈpɪrɪk another term for empirical Example sentencesExamples - Travelers should consult a physician if the diarrhea is severe and does not respond to empiric therapy.
- If burning persists after management of systemic or local oral conditions, a diagnosis of burning mouth syndrome can be considered, and empiric treatment for sensory neuropathy may be offered.
- Unfortunately, we have little empiric evidence that demonstrates the profound effect that it can have on altering physician practice patterns.
- However, although this relationship has been described based on empiric data, there are no mathematical models in the literature relating number of antibiotics used to probability of adequate coverage.
- Social sciences search the characteristics and patterns of human behavior, and in that sense, they are different from natural sciences which only regard empiric findings as evidence.
- Although celiac disease was formally described late in the 19th century, treatment remained empiric until the middle of the 20th century when patients were noted to improve dramatically after wheat was removed from their diet.
- Treatment is largely empiric, although experience and small clinical studies have proved the efficacy of low-dose antidepressant therapy and exercise.
- In patients with recurrent kidney stones, empiric therapy and the modified simple metabolic evaluation were equally the most cost-effective strategies.
- Nevertheless, empiric evidence suggests that balance programs, such as repeatedly standing on one leg, can improve stability and decrease the risk of falls.
- Although bacterial infection may sometimes cause skin lesions or ulcerations similar to this case, empiric trials of antibiotics were unsuccessful for this patient, and subsequent bacterial cultures were negative.
- Two cost-effectiveness analyses supported empiric treatment with antiviral agents for appropriate patients if the likelihood of influenza is high.
- Some authors support the single best answer option relative to multiple correct options, but little empiric support is provided for advantages of either system.
- In such families empiric data suggests that the risk of recurrence is approximately 15%.
- The physician should remember this subconscious need when experiencing the urge to try yet another empiric treatment.
- Trial of treatment - empiric therapy for the most likely cause - may be preferable to extensive investigation because it may provide relief and diagnosis simultaneously.
- In the absence of such data, empiric selection should consider local epidemiology and susceptibility patterns.
- Choice of agents for empiric therapy should be determined by the patient's age and the presence of predisposing conditions, and should assume antimicrobial resistance.
- When evaluating a patient whose cough has been present for at least eight weeks, a systematic evaluation to assess the most common causes followed by a trial of empiric therapy is recommended.
noun ɛmˈpɪrɪkɪmˈpɪrɪkəmˈpɪrɪk archaic 1A person who, in medicine or other sciences, relies solely on observation and experiment. Example sentencesExamples - Whereas there is plenty of information on empirics, because of the licensing regime, folk healers occupy a very small place in the medical and police archives of the time.
- 1.1 A quack doctor.
Example sentencesExamples - In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the ‘learned physicians’ who were taught Galenic humoral medicine in the universities labelled such doctors quacks, empirics, and mountebanks.
- But the bulk of the population had little access to physicians, seeking instead barber-surgeons, apothecaries, empirics such as bonesetters and tooth-drawers, or wise women.
Origin Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek empeirikos, from empeiria 'experience', from empeiros 'skilled' (based on peira 'trial, experiment'). Rhymes lyric, panegyric, Pyrrhic, satiric, satyric, vampiric Definition of empiric in US English: empiricadjectiveəmˈpɪrɪkəmˈpirik another term for empirical Example sentencesExamples - Unfortunately, we have little empiric evidence that demonstrates the profound effect that it can have on altering physician practice patterns.
- Choice of agents for empiric therapy should be determined by the patient's age and the presence of predisposing conditions, and should assume antimicrobial resistance.
- Two cost-effectiveness analyses supported empiric treatment with antiviral agents for appropriate patients if the likelihood of influenza is high.
- Trial of treatment - empiric therapy for the most likely cause - may be preferable to extensive investigation because it may provide relief and diagnosis simultaneously.
- In such families empiric data suggests that the risk of recurrence is approximately 15%.
- Nevertheless, empiric evidence suggests that balance programs, such as repeatedly standing on one leg, can improve stability and decrease the risk of falls.
- Treatment is largely empiric, although experience and small clinical studies have proved the efficacy of low-dose antidepressant therapy and exercise.
- If burning persists after management of systemic or local oral conditions, a diagnosis of burning mouth syndrome can be considered, and empiric treatment for sensory neuropathy may be offered.
- However, although this relationship has been described based on empiric data, there are no mathematical models in the literature relating number of antibiotics used to probability of adequate coverage.
- Some authors support the single best answer option relative to multiple correct options, but little empiric support is provided for advantages of either system.
- The physician should remember this subconscious need when experiencing the urge to try yet another empiric treatment.
- Travelers should consult a physician if the diarrhea is severe and does not respond to empiric therapy.
- When evaluating a patient whose cough has been present for at least eight weeks, a systematic evaluation to assess the most common causes followed by a trial of empiric therapy is recommended.
- Social sciences search the characteristics and patterns of human behavior, and in that sense, they are different from natural sciences which only regard empiric findings as evidence.
- Although celiac disease was formally described late in the 19th century, treatment remained empiric until the middle of the 20th century when patients were noted to improve dramatically after wheat was removed from their diet.
- In the absence of such data, empiric selection should consider local epidemiology and susceptibility patterns.
- Although bacterial infection may sometimes cause skin lesions or ulcerations similar to this case, empiric trials of antibiotics were unsuccessful for this patient, and subsequent bacterial cultures were negative.
- In patients with recurrent kidney stones, empiric therapy and the modified simple metabolic evaluation were equally the most cost-effective strategies.
nounəmˈpɪrɪkəmˈpirik archaic 1A person who, in medicine or other branches of science, relies solely on observation and experiment. Example sentencesExamples - Whereas there is plenty of information on empirics, because of the licensing regime, folk healers occupy a very small place in the medical and police archives of the time.
- 1.1 A quack doctor.
Example sentencesExamples - In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the ‘learned physicians’ who were taught Galenic humoral medicine in the universities labelled such doctors quacks, empirics, and mountebanks.
- But the bulk of the population had little access to physicians, seeking instead barber-surgeons, apothecaries, empirics such as bonesetters and tooth-drawers, or wise women.
Origin Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek empeirikos, from empeiria ‘experience’, from empeiros ‘skilled’ (based on peira ‘trial, experiment’). |