Diagnose vs Diagnosis - What's the difference?
diagnose | diagnosis | Related terms |
(medicine) To determine which disease is causing a sick person's signs and symptoms; to find the diagnosis.
(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).
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(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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Diagnosis is a related term of diagnose.
As a verb diagnose
is to determine which disease is causing a sick person's signs and symptoms; to find the diagnosis.As a noun diagnosis is
the identification of the nature and cause of an illness.diagnose
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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.