Noun: diagnosis
| Singular | diagnosis |
| Plural | diagnoses |
Sample Sentences
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Diagnosis is a challenging art informed by wide-ranging science.
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He was given the wrong treatment due to an erroneous diagnosis.
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Her diagnoses include type 2 diabetes mellitus, primary hypertension, diabetic retinopathy, and generalized anxiety disorder.
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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. [2012 January 26, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2012, page 87:]
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In 1995, 2% of schizophrenia diagnoses in the country were associated with cannabis use disorder. In 2000, it increased to around 4%. Since 2010, that figure increased to 8%, the study found. [2021 July 22, Katie Hunt, “Schizophrenia linked to marijuana use disorder is on the rise, study finds”, in CNN:]
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Diagnosis is part of being an automotive mechanic.
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Her diagnosis of the current economic situation is that central banks are overcorrecting.
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The quick eye for effects, the clear diagnosis of men's minds, and the love of epigram. [1887, Charles L. Reade, Compton Reade, Charles Reade, Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist: A Memoir:]
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My diagnosis of his character proved correct. [1887, James Payn, Glow-worm tales:]
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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. [1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:]
Nouns inflected like diagnosis
mythopoiesis,
ketoacidosis,
carcinomatosis,
macropinocytosis,
syrtis,
glomerulosclerosis,
anagenesis,
cryptanalysis,
sepsis,
subhypothesis,
neurotoxocariasis,
dysmorphosis,
preexapophysis,
neurolipidosis,
diegesis,
chocolate nemesis,
carcinogenesis,
eccyesis,
qualitative analysis,
epicranial aponeurosis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
3. Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
4. Ancient Greek διά (diá)
5. Ancient Greek δια- (dia-)
6. Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-
7. Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
8. Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱétider.
9. Proto-Hellenic *gignṓskō
10. Ancient Greek γῐγνώσκω (gĭgnṓskō)
11. Ancient Greek δῐαγῐγνώσκω (dĭagĭgnṓskō)
12. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
13. Proto-Hellenic *-tis
14. Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
15. Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
16. Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́γνωσῐς (dĭắgnōsĭs)der.
17. Latin diagnōsisder.
18. English diagnosis
19. From Latin diagnōsis, from Ancient Greek διάγνωσις (diágnōsis), from διαγιγνώσκω (diagignṓskō, “to discern”), from διά (diá, “through”) + γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “to know”). See: Latin Nouns '
diagnōsis', Ancient Greek Nouns '
διάγνωσις'.
Verbs referencing "diagnosis"
Finnish Nouns
diagnoosi.