Here's the thing though, doctors have a long storied background of not knowing what the hell they're doing. History is filled with stories of hilarious medical ineptitude, and in all likeliness, today's medical practices will be similarly snorted at 100 years down the road.
Empty definition, containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle. See more.
Meaning: An empty area or space. Classified under: Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes. Synonyms: void; vacuum; vacancy; emptiness. Context examples: the huge desert voids / the emptiness of outer space / without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum. Hypernyms (vacuum is a kind of...): home appliance; household appliance (an appliance that does a particular job in the home) Meronyms (parts of vacuum): dust bag; vacuum bag (a bag into which dirt is sucked by a vacuum cleaner) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of vacuum): Hoover (a kind of vacuum cleaner) â¢ VACUUM (verb)