Condition vs Diagnosis - What's the difference?
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A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
A requirement, term or requisite.
(legal) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
The health status of a medical patient.
The state or quality.
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A particular state of being.
(obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
To subject to the process of acclimation.
To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
To place conditions or limitations upon.
* Tennyson
To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Sir Walter Raleigh
To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
(US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
* Sir W. Hamilton
(medicine) The identification of the nature and cause of an illness.
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The identification of the nature and cause of something (of any nature).
* Compton Reade
* J. Payn
(taxonomy) A written description of a species or other taxon serving to distinguish that species from all others. Especially, a description written in Latin and published.
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As nouns the difference between condition and diagnosis
is that condition is a logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false while diagnosis is the identification of the nature and cause of an illness.As a verb condition
is to subject to the process of acclimation.condition
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Noun
(en noun)- A man of his condition has no place to make request.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "condition")Synonyms
* (the health or state of something) fettleDerived terms
* conditional * condition subsequent * human condition * in condition * interesting condition * mint condition * necessary condition * precondition * statement of condition * sufficient conditionVerb
(en verb)- I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.
- They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
- Seas, that daily gain upon the shore, / Have ebb and flow conditioning their march.
- Pay me back my credit, / And I'll condition with ye.
- It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children.
- (McElrath)
- to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study
- To think of a thing is to condition .
Derived terms
* air-condition * conditioner * precondition * reconditionStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----diagnosis
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Noun
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- The quick eye for effects, the clear diagnosis of men's minds, and the love of epigram.
- My diagnosis of his character proved correct.
- The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification.
