diagnosev.
/dʌɪəɡˈnəʊz/ Medicine. figurative.1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand ii. 11 Her heart had diagnosed the symptoms.1885 Times 13 Aug. 4/1 It is not difficult for me to diagnose..the name of the ‘former house-surgeon’ who wrote to you.
a. transitive. To make a diagnosis of (a disease), to distinguish and determine its nature from its symptoms; to recognize and identify by careful observation.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > discern [verb (transitive)]
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to have eyes to seea1425
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > diagnose or prognose [verb (transitive)] > diagnose
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1861 A. Wynter Our Social Bees 339 I was enabled to diagnose the complaint at once.
1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 231 Articular rheumatism has also to be diagnosed from the other forms.
1887 Homœopathic World Nov. 497 I diagnosed chronic jaundice.
b. absol. or intransitive.
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1882 Attfield in Standard 23 Aug. 2/2 The pharmacist..attempting to diagnose while knowing nothing about the human frame.
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