to diagnose
- verb
- /ˈdaɪəɡnoʊz/
- In 2003, a health care worker from the Philippines was diagnosed with pulmonary TB.
- diagnose and treat
- patients diagnosed
- newly diagnosed
And is is trying to diagnose how we do that.
- And is is trying to diagnose how we do that.
- You think they would have diagnosed that, you know, years ago.
- So before being diagnosed, I, I grew up in Bondi.
- OK, how do you diagnose alcoholism as a pathology?
- And then once it's diagnosed, how is it treated?
- And they diagnosed me with CPTSD, chronic PTSD.
- Don't let anyone else diagnose you or medicate you.
- The problem with psychiatric illnesses is that they're all diagnosed entirely on symptoms.
- Also got to understand the product and know what's broken and diagnose it and all that stuff.
- So there may well be a bias in clinicians to not diagnose as many women as men.
- Instead of diagnosing, we need to describe and that's huge.
- So what he's saying here is he's self diagnosing.
- So like pre diagnosing LES, I had pre diagnosed this man.
Examples
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The doctor was able to diagnose the patient's illness after reviewing the test results.
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Jan Burt has been caring for her husband, Victor, since he was diagnosed with dementia six years ago.
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When we diagnose an animal, we look for the most common things first.
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We'll be going directly to our lab to diagnose our symptoms.
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I know you can't diagnose over the phone.
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A primary care provider may be the one to screen, diagnose, assess and prescribe medications.
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X-rays are one of their only tools for diagnosing the cause.
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Malaria in pregnancy can be difficult to diagnose and clinically complicated.
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An echocardiogram is recognized as the best method for diagnosing heart failure.
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Following careful investigation, she is diagnosed with left ventricular systolic dysfunction with an ejection fraction of 32%.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
To run tests that find problems in a machine or system
Phrasal Verbs
- Jargon
To tell someone after a doctor checks them that they have a stomach infection
How Certain
Surface Forms
Etymology
Diagnose comes from Greek roots dia- meaning 'through' and gnosis meaning 'knowledge'. So to diagnose is to 'know through' the signs, to find the cause of an illness or problem by looking at the information.