单词 | routinism |
释义 | routinismn. 1. depreciative. The fact of treating a patient mechanically, esp. by administering treatment due to the manifestation of certain symptoms, rather than performing and acting upon a full diagnosis. Also: an example of this. Cf. routineer n. 2.In recent use perhaps only a contextual application of sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > practice of healing art > [noun] > ignorantly quacking1648 empirie1651 empiricism1658 quackery1675 routinism1829 1829 Periscope May in Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 11 215/2 We would therefore caution practitioners against blind routinism. 1853 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Nov. 555 The thorough consideration of such questions has saved the life of many a patient, which an undiscriminating routinism would have destroyed. 1889 Lancet 5 Oct. 703/1 He deprecated routinism, automatism, mechanical prescription in medicine. 1912 Internat. Jrnl. Med. & Surg. 25 267/2 The lesson they teach is to avoid carelessness and routinism, to make a careful examination in all cases. 1989 J. H. Warner in R. L. Numbers & T. L. Savitt Sci. & Med. Old South ix. 185 Disease-specific treatment implied a routinism that was a stigma of quackery. 2. gen. The fact of conducting oneself according to routine; slavish adherence to or excessive preoccupation with routine; (also) the prevalence of routine. Frequently depreciative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > routine > prevalence or dominance of routine routinism1856 1856 A. Wills Wanderings High Alps Pref. p. vi To point out some few of the more interesting excursions..which, from the routinism or apathy of the inhabitants, are hardly known to themselves. 1883 Jrnl. Educ. (Univ. of Boston School of Educ.) 17 151 Where ‘stony routinism’ prevails. 1948 H. Wakefield New Paths for Japan i. v. 42 The adverse effect of inducing excessive routinism and a disposition to obstruct new measures. 1977 O. Schell China (1978) 45 This is brainless, misdirected bureaucracy. In other words, it is routinism. 2000 C. Geertz Available Light i. 8 A gathering of fugitives from traditional departments made restless with routinism by the derangements of the war. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1829 |
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