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undiagnosed

undiagnosed

14 6.0
Not found by a doctor or medical test
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌnˈdaɪəɡnoʊst/
: no diagnosticado
  • How much low level depression in society actually goes undiagnosed and unnoticed?
  • undiagnosed and untreated
  • undiagnosed HIV infection
  • undiagnosed conditions

And it turns out I was an undiagnosed juvenile diabetic.

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Examples

  • Students from the lowest-performing schools, he says, often have problems with academic preparedness or an undiagnosed learning disability.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Most young adults with high blood pressure remain undiagnosed after four years of regular doctors' care.

    Blog text (30)
  • I always wanted to come and be a student here, but I had some sort of undiagnosed reading issues.

  • I think there are a lot of people with undiagnosed mental illness, especially depression.

    Blog text (23)
  • The National Commission also addresses the issue of costs to individuals and society associated with undiagnosed sleep disorders.

    Academic text (1997)
  • I'd been dealing with years and years of undiagnosed depression and anxiety and I was a mess.

  • Practice nurses are well placed to detect undiagnosed coeliac disease in the practice population.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Many people have undiagnosed hypothyroidism or low thyroid.

  • Statistics of prevalence differ, but it is thought that many cases of rosacea simply go undiagnosed.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Many people suffer from undiagnosed conditions that could benefit from medical attention.

Synonyms

unexplained
vsundiagnosed
58 4.8

No one knows the cause

is a condition that still lacks formal medical identification
undetected
vsundiagnosed
43 4.6

Not found or noticed by others

is present but lacks formal medical identification
unrecognized
vsundiagnosed
3 4.2

Not known or noticed by other people

is present but not given formal medical identification
unsuspected
vsundiagnosed
2 5.3

Not known or expected to be there

is present yet was not detected by medical checks

Antonyms

A doctor finds someone has an illness after checking them

recognized
  • Formal
55 3.5

Known and officially accepted as important or respected

How Diagnosed

confirmed
137 3.0
suspected
146 3.7
undiagnosed
14 6.0
unrecognized
3 4.2

Surface Forms

undiagnosed positive

Morphology

undiagnosed = diagnosed (transparent) = un + diagnose + ed

Clear negation prefix 'un-' attached to the past-participle adjective 'diagnosed' yields the straightforward meaning 'not diagnosed'.

Etymology

Undiagnosed is made of un- meaning 'not' and diagnose meaning 'to find the cause' or 'to know what is wrong', so an undiagnosed illness is one that has not been found or identified by a doctor.