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Doctors' determinations
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diagnoses
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Word definitions for diagnoses in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon [syn: diagnosing ] [also: diagnoses (pl)]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of diagnosis English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: diagnose )
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
plural of diagnosis .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diagnosis \Di`ag*no"sis\, n.; pl. Diagnoses . [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to distinguish; dia` through, asunder + ? to know. See Know .] (Med.) The art or act of recognizing the presence of disease from its signs or symptoms, and deciding as to its character; ...
Usage examples of diagnoses.
For one thing, it excludes diagnoses: anyone who speaks of cryptogenic cirrhosis has excluded alcoholic or post-hepatitic cirrhosis.
In the writings of Gregg Rickman, however, diagnoses of Dick abound and are relentlessly flogged despite the highly inconclusive evidence.
Her diagnoses are correct, her notes are wonderful, and she's as sharp as hell.
In short, we want more precise diagnoses because we have more precise therapies.
For years after the telephone became common, physicians resisted making telephone diagnoses, and they still frown on them.
The first is that the MGH, by its very nature, sees a great many patients whose diagnoses have been missed.
Each teaching hospital in Boston delights in getting the patients of others, and making diagnoses that were missed.