empiric
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7.4
- adjective
- /ɛmˈpɪrɪk/
- Formal
:
empírico
- In her research, she emphasized the importance of empiric data over purely theoretical models.
- empiric therapy
- empiric treatment
- empiric antibiotic
But you're not giving me any, any actual empiric evidence of how to get there.
- But you're not giving me any, any actual empiric evidence of how to get there.
Examples
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Antibiotics are prescribed according to culture and sensitivity, but empiric therapy can be started pending the laboratory report.
Academic text (2010) -
Treatment with antibiotics is primarily empiric and based on pathogen prevalence.
Academic text (2003) -
But you're not giving me any, any actual empiric evidence of how to get there.
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If you do, you should at least try to assume an empiric and non-normative approach.
Blog text (3) -
Most patients in our study responded to primary empiric antibiotic therapy, and very few required a change in antibiotics.
Academic text (2005) -
However, a major concern with empiric treatment is an increase in antibacterial resistance among key pathogens.
Academic text (2003) -
In view of the cost and lack of availability of pH-metry in many locations, empiric therapy is often undertaken.
Academic text (2002) -
There are too many different causes of meningitis to rely on empiric antibiotic therapy.
Fiction book (1994) -
From this standpoint alone, empiric topical antibiotic therapy makes sense.
Academic text (2006) -
Traditionally, medical therapy for chronic sinusitis has been guided by empiric data for antibiotic selection.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
223
4.7
Using tests or trials to check new ideas
62
5.9
Based on what you see or experience rather than on ideas
27
5.0
Based on watching people or events rather than on ideas
1
9.6
Based on what people see or measure, not on theory
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
empiric = empir + ic
The productive suffix '-ic' signals 'relating to' and the meaning 'based on observation' is predictable, but the root 'empir' is a non‑standalone combining form not familiar to most learners, so the relation is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Empiric comes from an old Greek word empeiria meaning 'experience', the same root as English experience. So an empiric approach is one that uses what you can see and test, not only theory.