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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.

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

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

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.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.diagnosisdiagnosis - identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon
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)

diagnosis
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Spanish diagnosis [pl diagnoses] [daɪəgˈnəusɪs, -siːz] ndiagnóstico
French diagnosis [diagnoses , pl ] [daɪəgˈnəusɪs, -siːz] ndiagnostic m
German diagnosis [daɪəgˈnəusɪs] diagnose [diagnoses , pl ] nDiagnose f
Italian diagnosis [pl diagnoses] [daɪəgˈnəusɪs, -siːz] ndiagnosi f inv

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