+1+2+3. personally, any edema is bad.... Oct 16, '04. I rate it on the pitting by how many seconds it takes to return to normal after an indent. If it takes 1-3 seconds I rate it a one, 4-6 seconds a two, more a three and after that I tell them how many seconds and say beyond a three.
A heuristic technique (/hjáµ¿ËrÉªstáµ»k/; Ancient Greek: Îµá½ÏÎ¯ÏÎºÏ, find or discover), often called simply a heuristic, is any approach to problem solving, learning, or discovery that employs a practical method not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect, but sufficient for the immediate goals.
2. encouraging a person to learn, discover, or solve problems on his or her own, as by experimenting, evaluating possible answers or solutions, or by trial and error: a heuristic teaching method. 3. pertaining to or based on experimentation, evaluation, or trial-and-error methods.4. a heuristic method or argument.5. the study of heuristic procedure. heuristicus = Greek heur(iskein) Ã­skein to find, out + Discover-latin-isticus ]. isticdj. 1. heuristic-of or relating to or using a general formulation that serves to guide investigation. algorithmic-of or relating to or having the characteristics of an algorithm. Translations.