epicrisis

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

• From Ancient Greek ἐπίκρισις
• epi- + crisis