to misdiagnose
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6.1
- verb
- /ˌmɪsˌdaɪəɡˈnoʊs/
- You may have been misdiagnosed with ADD or ADHD as a child.
- often misdiagnose
- misdiagnosed with ADHD
- misdiagnosed as a sarcoma
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Watch on YouTubeYou will find that lots of people that have viral infections are misdiagnosed with neurological conditions.
- You will find that lots of people that have viral infections are misdiagnosed with neurological conditions.
- It was created by an OBGYN who saw first hand how normal Bo was being misdiagnosed and mistreated.
- And ultimately, after a couple of weeks of being misdiagnosed, I learned that after nearly a decade in remission, my leukemia was back.
- She's been misdiagnosed, she's been improperly medicated, either given the wrong medication or not the right medication.
- So just a doctor misdiagnosing you creates, creates a split.
- It's we often, I think misdiagnose anxiety as chemistry.
- So you get lots of people who are misdiagnosed.
- But there are one, I think there's one at least who's been misdiagnosed.
Examples
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The actual number of victims may be much higher, it says, because many such cases are misdiagnosed or go undetected.
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After further tests, it became clear that she had been misdiagnosed with a rare disease.
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So it's often misdiagnosed, which is bad news.
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Nine times out of 10 the symptoms are due to mental illness that has been misdiagnosed.
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Yet as we just saw with Yvonne, women are more likely to be misdiagnosed when seeking help.
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Many children present with behavioral difficulties that may be misdiagnosed and misunderstood.
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Bipolar disorder in children is often misdiagnosed and misunderstood.
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Men are often misdiagnosed as having depression or PTSD rather than borderline personality disorder.
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The early symptoms of Type 1 diabetes may be misdiagnosed as respiratory infections, simple candidiasis, gastroenteritis, or urinary tract infections.
Academic text (2012) -
The doctor was embarrassed to admit that he had misdiagnosed the patient's condition.
Synonyms
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3.9
To form a wrong idea about someone or something
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6.5
Say a person or thing is a different one
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5.7
Put something in the wrong group by mistake
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8.1
Mistake a person or object for a different one
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Etymology
Misdiagnose breaks into mis- meaning 'wrong' and diagnose meaning 'to identify a disease', so misdiagnose means to identify an illness wrongly.