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Epicrisis

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Epicrisis 

a physician’s summary containing information on a patient’s condition, diagnosis and prognosis of the illness, and recommendations for treatment and work. It is inserted in the patient’s clinical record every 10–14 days and when the patient is discharged or transferred to another medical facility. An epicrisis is also written in the event of the patient’s death.
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Other devices of the "verisimilar" style are found in Lanham's group, "example, allusion, and citation of authority": martyria, epicrisis, apodixis, apomnemonysis, exemplum (to which we could add nominal seriation).
A Catalogue of Selected Rhetorical Devices Used in the Works of Edgar ... by Zimmerman, Brett / Style
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket 170-71) Like Pym's catalogues of nouns and his use of martyria, epicrisis adds to the sense of verisimilitude in Pym - the impression that Pym's antarctic voyage was fact and not fiction, and that Pym, with the crew of the Jane Guy, really did go beyond previous explorers toward the South Pole.
A catalogue of rhetorical and other literary terms from American ... by Zimmerman, Brett / Style
 
 
 
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