diagnosis

From Latin diagnōsis, from Ancient Greek διάγνωσις (diágnōsis), from διαγιγνώσκω (diagignṓskō, “to discern”), from διά (diá, “through”) + γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “to know”).

• IPA^(key): /daɪəɡˈnəʊsɪs/

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• Rhymes: -əʊsɪs

diagnosis (countable and uncountable, plural diagnoses)

1. (medicine, countable, uncountable) The process of, or an instance of, identification of the nature and cause of an illness.

   Diagnosis is a challenging art informed by wide-ranging science.

   He was given the wrong treatment due to an erroneous diagnosis.

   Her diagnoses include type 2 diabetes mellitus, primary hypertension, diabetic retinopathy, and generalized anxiety disorder.

   • 2012 January, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 4 April 2012, page 87:

     In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.

2. The process of, or an instance of, identification of the nature and cause of something (of any nature).

   Diagnosis is part of being an automotive mechanic.

   Her diagnosis of the current economic situation is that central banks are overcorrecting.

   • 1887, Charles L. Reade, Compton Reade, Charles Reade, Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist: A Memoir:

     The quick eye for effects, the clear diagnosis of men's minds, and the love of epigram.

   • 1887, James Payn, Glow-worm tales:

     My diagnosis of his character proved correct.

3. (taxonomy) A written description of a species or other taxon serving to distinguish that species from all others; especially a description written and published in Latin.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page viii:

     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.

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diagnosis

1. (nonstandard, proscribed, rare) Synonym of diagnose
   • 2013, Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things:

     Experienced mechanics can diagnosis the condition of machinery just by listening.

• “diagnosis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “diagnosis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “diagnosis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Learned borrowing from Latin diagnōsis, from Ancient Greek διάγνωσις (diágnōsis), from διαγιγνώσκω (diagignṓskō, “to discern”), from διά (diá, “through”) + γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “to know”). Doublet of diagnosa and diagnose.

• IPA^(key): [diaɡˈnosɪs]
• Hyphenation: di‧ag‧no‧sis

diagnosis (plural diagnosis-diagnosis, first-person possessive diagnosisku, second-person possessive diagnosismu, third-person possessive diagnosisnya)

1. diagnosis:
   1. (medicine) The identification of the nature and cause of an illness.
   2. The identification of the nature and cause of something (of any nature).

• diagnosa
• diagnose

• “diagnosis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /djaɡˈnosis/ [d̪jaɣ̞ˈno.sis]
• Rhymes: -osis
• Syllabification: diag‧no‧sis

diagnosis f (plural diagnosis)

1. diagnosis

• “diagnosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014