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DIAGNOSE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis

Synonyms:

diagnose; name

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "diagnose" is one way to...):

analyse; analyze; canvass; examine; study (consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "diagnose"):

explore (examine minutely)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

diagnosing; diagnosis (identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Subject to a medical analysis

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "diagnose" is one way to...):

analyse; analyze; canvass; examine; study (consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "diagnose"):

explore (examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

diagnosing; diagnosis (identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon)

Credits

 Context examples: 

At least 1 should be diagnosed before age 50; 5.

(Amsterdam Criteria II, NCI Thesaurus)

Doctors use skin and blood tests to diagnose allergies.

(Allergy, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

They are used to analyze tissue samples to help diagnose diseases.

(Affinity reagent, NCI Dictionary)

It may arise from a low-grade astrocytoma, but it can also be diagnosed at first biopsy, without indication of a less malignant precursor lesion.

(Anaplastic Astrocytoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

Your doctor will diagnose anemia with a physical exam and blood tests.

(Anemia, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Doctors diagnose AF using family and medical history, a physical exam, and a test called an electrocardiogram (EKG), which looks at the electrical waves your heart makes.

(Atrial Fibrillation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

A disorder most often diagnosed in the pediatric years in which the individual displays marked impairment in social interaction and a repetitive, stereotyped pattern of behavior.

(Asperger Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

This test is used to diagnose certain blood disorders in which patients make antibodies to their own red blood cells or platelets.

(Antiglobulin test, NCI Dictionary)

Monoclonal antibody 3A1 is used to diagnose and classify T cell malignancies.

(Monoclonal Antibody 3A1, NCI Thesaurus)

Health care professionals use MRI scans to diagnose a variety of conditions, from torn ligaments to tumors.

(MRI Scans, NIH)