Identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon

Usage examples of diagnosis.

Their diagnosis, therefore, implies agnosis, or ignorance too great to be forgiven.

The differential diagnosis of amenorrhea, particularly in young girls, must consider nervousness as a strong etiologic possibility.

Red bumps could be caused by anything from a viral infection to autoimmune disease, and few skin lesions are unique enough to point to an immediate diagnosis.

His discharge diagnosis was fever of unknown origin with bacteroides septicemia.

This year alone, more than a million new diagnoses of major cancers will be made and about five hundred and fifty thousand Americans will die of cancer, an average of fifteen hundred a day.

It tended to strike men between the ages of 18 and 25 and was considered very treatable as cancers go, thanks to advances in chemotherapy, but early diagnosis and intervention were key.

Every Tuesday, the caseworker would give me her diagnosis, and that was my new assignment.

This was the provisional diagnosis despite the fact that the cerebrospinal fluid was clear.

For the surgical techniques we have observed among the Chimu, some sort of X-ray device as an aid to diagnosis would be virtually a necessity.

A diagnosis of cholangitis and cholecystitis was likely, but never demonstrated.

Until sufficient tubercular matter has been deposited in the lungs to alter the sounds observed on auscultation and percussion, a definite diagnosis of tubercular consumption cannot be made, even though there may have been hemorrhage.

He made no bones about inspecting Diamat, as if the fellow was a patient who had come for a diagnosis and treatment.

All the doctors I work with now believe in telling patients their diagnoses.

The diagnosis was dysthymic disorder, a chronic form of low-grade depression.

A few minutes of study gave him a depressingly easy working diagnosis: Donny was suffering from chronic granulomatous disease.