diagnose

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di·ag·nose /ˈdaɪəɡnəʊz $ -noʊs/ verb [transitiveT]

MHFIND OUTto find out what illness someone has, or what the cause of a fault is, after doing tests, examinations etc 診斷；判斷

diagnose somebody as (having) something

Joe struggled in school before he was diagnosed as dyslexic.

喬在學校裏學習很吃力，後來被診斷出患有誦讀困難症。

diagnose something as something

The illness was diagnosed as mumps.

這病經診斷是流行性腮腺炎。

diagnose somebody with something

She was diagnosed with breast cancer.

她被診斷出患有乳腺癌。

Examples from the Corpus

diagnose• A technician diagnosed a bad pump in the engine.• Clinical ecologists therefore attempt to diagnose and treat a disease which conventional doctors believe does not exist.• Matthew was wrongly diagnosed as having a bone tumour.• Several years ago, she was diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease.• This was diagnosed as impetigo, an unpleasant and contagious affliction.• Another factor that needs to be considered when policy is formulated is that lethal malformation will not always be diagnosed before delivery.• Nonspecialists are often reluctant to diagnose depression, which can produce symptoms ranging from insomnia to pelvic pain, Thompson says.• If cervical cancer is diagnosed in its early stages, it can be cured.• The cancer was diagnosed one and a half years after the divorce.• Programmers diagnosed the problem as a computer virus.• There are various methods for diagnosing what is wrong with a sick person.• The researchers used a cancer registry and found that 419 were diagnosed with stomach cancer by 1992.• She has been diagnosed with tuberculosis, kidney problems and malnutrition, health workers say.

diagnose somebody with something• Her mother was diagnosed with cancer.

Origin diagnose

(1800-1900) diagnosis

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