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diagnose /ˈdʌɪəɡnəʊz / /dʌɪəɡˈnəʊz/verb [with object]1Identify the nature of (an illness or other problem) by examination of the symptoms: two doctors failed to diagnose a punctured lung...- Doctors usually diagnose the disease after studying the symptoms, and excluding other possible causes.
- The surgeon diagnoses the problem by barium enema or a colonoscopy and schedules surgery.
- Generally speaking, a team that includes both a speech therapist and surgeon working together best diagnoses these problems.
Synonyms identify, determine, distinguish, recognize, discover, spot, detect, pinpoint; pronounce, confirm, verify 1.1Identify the nature of the medical condition of: she was finally diagnosed as having epilepsy 20,000 men are diagnosed with skin cancer every year...- Would this woman have been given such advice if her unborn child was not diagnosed as having the condition?
- Pollyanna was just six weeks old when she was diagnosed as having the condition.
- George was diagnosed with the potentially deadly condition days after his second birthday.
Derivativesdiagnosable adjective ...- Unlike cancer, CAD is readily preventable, diagnosable, treatable and even reversible.
- Some violent offenders are not sociopathic or psychopathic, yet probably about 20 percent of the prison population is diagnosable as being psychopathic.
- Studies indicate that more than 90 per cent of suicide victims have a diagnosable psychiatric illness such as depression.
OriginMid 19th century: back-formation from diagnosis. Rhymesappose, arose, Bose, brose, chose, close, compose, self-diagnose, doze, enclose, expose, foreclose, froze, hose, impose, interpose, juxtapose, Montrose, noes, nose, oppose, plainclothes, pose, propose, prose, rose, suppose, those, transpose, underexpose, uprose |