retrospectoscope

词形变化

retrospectoscopes 复数 retrospectoscopes

别名

retrospectroscope

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A hypothetical instrument that allows diagnostic and management decisions to be made with medical hindsight.

    幽默 俚语

    1994, Virginia L. Miller, Molecular Genetics of Bacterial Pathogenesis: A Tribute to Stanley Falkow, Amer Society for Microbiology The retrospectoscope is a marvelous instrument, particularly if it is supplied with rose-colored lenses. I cannot pretend to reconstruct objectively the events that affected my career.

    I have also had to learn that just as the lens of the retrospectoscope provides false clarity, the lens of unbridled optimism distorts reality.

词源

From retrospect(ive) + -o- + -scope.

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