underdiagnosisn.
Medicine.
Failure, on a significant scale, to detect or correctly diagnose all the cases of a disease examined.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > [noun] > diagnosis > specific
self-diagnosis1858
autodiagnosis1893
misdiagnosis1946
underdiagnosis1966
1966 Gastroenterology LI. 1074 (heading) Under~diagnosis of biliary tract disorders?
1971 Brit. Med. Bull. 27 14/1 Under-diagnosis has also contributed to the apparently low incidence.
1982 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 May 1585/1 This low figure for Britain is unlikely to represent underdiagnosis.
Derivatives
underˈdiagnose v. (transitive)
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > diagnose or prognose [verb (transitive)] > diagnose > specific
misdiagnose1911
self-diagnose1920
underdiagnose1979
1979 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Dec. 1582/3 Surely this does not show general practitioners to be disgracefully underdiagnosing or under~treating hypertension, especially with regard to detection, as a great number of these people had not seen their doctor for some considerable time.
underˈdiagnosed adj.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > [adjective] > diagnostic
diagnostic1625
nosognomonic1656
semiological1839
autodiagnostic1903
xenodiagnostic1955
underdiagnosed1974
1974 Med. Jrnl. Austral. 12 Jan. 49/1 (heading) Cœliac disease: an underdiagnosed disorder with important implications.
1975 Gut XVI. 81 The condition may have been underdiagnosed in Britain.
1983 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Sept. 827/1 He considers the disorder to be seriously underdiagnosed.
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