diagnosis (redirected from Diagnosis-related group)

di·ag·no·sis  (dg-nss)

n. pl. di·ag·no·ses (-sz)

1. Medicine

a. The act or process of identifying or determining the nature and cause of a disease or injury through evaluation of patient history, examination, and review of laboratory data.

b. The opinion derived from such an evaluation.

2.

a. A critical analysis of the nature of something.

b. The conclusion reached by such analysis.

3. Biology A brief description of the distinguishing characteristics of an organism, as for taxonomic classification.

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[Greek diagnsis, discernment, from diagignskein, to distinguish : dia-, apart; see dia- + gignskein, gn-, to come to know, discern; see gn- in Indo-European roots.]

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diagnosis [die-ag-no-siss, -seez]

Noun

pl -ses the discovery and identification of diseases from the examination of symptoms [Greek: a distinguishing]

diagnostic adj

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diagnosis  (dg-nss)

Plural diagnoses (dg-nsz)

The identification by a medical provider of a condition, disease, or injury made by evaluating the symptoms and signs presented by a patient.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

diagnosis - identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon diagnosing identification, designation - the act of designating or identifying something blood typing - determining a person's blood type by serological methods medical diagnosis - identification of a disease from its symptoms uranalysis, urinalysis - (medicine) the chemical analysis of urine (for medical diagnosis)

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diagnosis

noun 1. identification, discovery, recognition, detection

noun 2. opinion, conclusion, interpretation, pronouncement

Translations

diagnosis [pl diagnoses] [daɪəgˈnəusɪs, -siːz] n → diagnóstico

diagnosis [diagnoses , pl ] [daɪəgˈnəusɪs, -siːz] n → diagnostic m

diagnosis [daɪəgˈnəusɪs] diagnose [diagnoses , pl ] n → Diagnose f

diagnosis [pl diagnoses] [daɪəgˈnəusɪs, -siːz] n → diagnosi f inv