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vb. To incorrectly diagnose.
Usage examples of "misdiagnose".
Web site was right and the tsarevitch was the one who was misdiagnosed, way back at the turn of the century.
One was neither boy nor girl but a lump that grew at such frightening speed the doctors called it cancer and misdiagnosed death within a year.
It was surprising how many medical examiners had misdiagnosed the cause of death and the method had attracted Julio Pugaliese from the first time he heard of it.
She struck me as the sort of woman who, a hundred years ago, might have spent long years in a sanitarium with a series of misdiagnoses stemming from anxiety, un-happiness, laudanum addiction, or an aversion to sex.
I fired that cardiologist who'd misdiagnosed her, and I was the one who ordered new tests and hired her a new cook.
The husband of the thirty-year-old cancer victim, though present during the assisted suicide, subsequently filed a civil suit seeking damages from Maddoc when an autopsy discovered that his wife had been misdiagnosed, that she didn't have cancer, and that her condition had been curable.
Briefer pieces dealt with anticholinergic syndrome in the elderly - old people misdiagnosed as senile because of drug-induced psychosis - the fine points of occupational therapy, the hospital pharmacy, and a new eating disorders programme.
Popular psychology books, like the ones available at your local library or bookstore, have been criticized, however, because (1) the reader may misdiagnose or not realize that he or she has a serious problem and, thus, may not seek appropriate help.
And the chirurgeons that were his teachers only made him sicker, misdiagnosing him and dosing him for illnesses he didn’t even have.
And the chirurgeons that were his teachers only made him sicker, misdiagnosing him and dosing him for illnesses he didn't even have.