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prediagnosis

prediagnosis

7.4
An early idea about a patient's illness before official tests show it
  • noun
  • /ˌpriːˈdaɪəɡnəsɪs/
  • Specialized
: prediagnóstico
  • Patients often feel anxious during the prediagnosis phase as they await test results.

I wasn't going to be able to skip back to the person I'd been prediagnosis.

Examples

  • The prediagnosis period may be stressful indeed.

    Academic text (2001)

  • PREDIAGNOSIS

    Academic text (2001)

  • In another institution, an incisional biopsy was performed for a giant mass with fibromatosis (extraabdominal desmoid tumor) prediagnosis.

    Academic text (2007)

  • The prediagnosis stage allowed doctors to monitor the patient's symptoms closely.

  • During the prediagnosis process, the physician gathered information to assess potential health issues.

Antonyms

diagnosis
  • Specialized
234 3.8

Finding the cause of a problem, especially in medicine

How Certain

prediagnosis
  • Specialized
7.4
screening
23 3.9

Surface Forms

prediagnosis singular
prediagnoses plural

Morphology

prediagnosis = diagnosis (transparent) = pre + diagnosis

The meaning is directly formed by adding 'pre-' to 'diagnosis' to mean the stage before diagnosis.

Etymology

The word prediagnosis starts with pre- meaning 'before' and ends with diagnosis meaning 'finding or naming a disease'. So a prediagnosis is an early opinion about what might be wrong, given before the full tests and the official diagnosis.