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Webster 1913 Edition


Proleptics

Pro-lep′tics

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Noun.
(Med.)
The art and science of predicting in medicine.
Laycock.

Definition 2024


proleptics

proleptics

English

Noun

proleptics (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) The art and science of predicting in medicine.
    • Thomas Laycock, Contributions to Proleptics