WordNet
n. identification a disease from its symptoms
Wikipedia
Medical diagnosis (abbreviated Dx or D) is the process of determining which disease or condition explains a person's symptoms and signs. It is most often referred to as diagnosis with the medical context being implicit. The information required for diagnosis is typically collected from a history and physical examination of the person seeking medical care. Often, one or more diagnostic procedures, such as diagnostic tests, are also done during the process. Sometimes Posthumous diagnosis is considered a kind of medical diagnosis.
Diagnosis is often challenging, because many signs and symptoms are nonspecific. For example, redness of the skin ( erythema), by itself, is a sign of many disorders and thus doesn't tell the healthcare professional what is wrong. Thus differential diagnosis, in which several possible explanations are compared and contrasted, must be performed. This involves the correlation of various pieces of information followed by the recognition and differentiation of patterns. Occasionally the process is made easy by a sign or symptom (or a group of several) that is pathognomonic.
Diagnosis is a major component of the procedure of a doctor's visit. From the point of view of statistics, the diagnostic procedure involves classification tests.
Usage examples of "medical diagnosis".
Finding negative congestive energy and removing it with healing very often removes the physical complaint, but for obvious reasons, a healer should never give a medical diagnosis.
I prefer it if people come having had a medical diagnosis and, if necessary, X-rays.
But I was an unpolitical creature, and all I knew of socialism suggested that it might very well serve as a vessel into which to pour the undifferentiated sense of grievance, the feeling of having had a Raw Deal, which was so prevalent I began to think it might be significant when a medical diagnosis was called for.
If this plan was a medical diagnosis, I'd sue the physician for malpractice.
She fed the scan data directly into the small computer she'd brought out from the ship to run the medical diagnosis software.
She may require intensive medical diagnosis or psychiatric evaluation.
The Imperial Commander had entered the Command Centre of the Burma and her radiant appearance made a mockery out of the medical diagnosis of the physicians.
Roentgen wasn't contemplating medical diagnosis when he investigated a penetrating radiation so mysterious he called it `X-rays'.
His description of Clara had the effect of softening the jury up to the point where they became interested in the details of his medical diagnosis, instead of being put off by them.