ambispective

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

ambi- +‎ Latin spectum +‎ -ive, on the pattern of retrospective and prospective.

Adjective[edit]

ambispective (not comparable)

  1. Having both retrospective and prospective components
    • 2015 December 18, “Differences in the Clinical Outcome of Osteomyelitis by Treating Specialty: Orthopedics or Infectology”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      An ambispective cohort study of 129 patients with osteomyelitis was conducted and the proportions for qualitative variables and central tendency and dispersion measures for quantitative variables were calculated; the latter were tested for normality using the Shapiro-Wilk test.