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(dī'əg-nō'sĭs)

1. Medicine.
   1. The act or process of identifying or determining the nature and cause of a disease or injury through evaluation of patient history, examination, and review of laboratory data.
   2. The opinion derived from such an evaluation.
2. 1. A critical analysis of the nature of something.
   2. The conclusion reached by such analysis.
3. Biology. A brief description of the distinguishing characteristics of an organism, as for taxonomic classification.

[Greek diagnōsis, discernment, from diagignōskein, to distinguish : dia-, apart; see dia- + gignōskein, gnō-, to come to know, discern.]

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The act or process of identifying or determining the nature and cause of an injury or disease. In sports medicine, as in other branches of medicine, diagnosis relies on taking a careful case history, performing a thorough physical examination, and using appropriate techniques, such as diagnostic imaging.

n.

A physician's forecast of the disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

Tutor's tip: The patient was relieved to get a "diagnosis" (an evaluation of a physical condition) of indigestion instead of other more dangerous "diagnoses" (plural of diagnosis).

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A name given to a disease so that each veterinarian means the same syndrome as every other veterinarian. It is then possible to prescribe for and make a prognosis about any one case on the basis of the outcomes in a series of animals with the same diagnosis. A diagnosis may be the name of a disease with a specific etiology, or one which is only a description of the morphological identity of the disease, a pathoanatomical diagnosis, or be a syndrome which is a description of the total symptomatology, or a single clinical sign.

• clinical d. — diagnosis based on clinical signs and laboratory findings during life.
• computer assisted d. — a computer program identifies the diseases that fit the identified abnormalities best.
• differential d. — the determination of which one of several diseases may be producing the signs observed.
• etiological d. — identifies the specific cause of the disease.
• pathoanatomical d. — diagnosis to the point of identifying the system and organ involved and the nature of the lesion, but short of identifying the cause.
• physical d. — diagnosis based on information obtained by inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation.
• radiological d. — a good radiological report does more than report findings. It interprets these findings if possible up to the point of making a pathoanatomical diagnosis (see above).
• veterinary d. — diagnosis performed by a veterinarian and based on information gleaned from a variety of sources, including (1) findings from a physical examination, (2) interview with the owner or custodian of the animal, (3) veterinary history of the patient and its cohorts and (4) paraclinical findings as reported by pertinent laboratory tests and radiological studies.

The translation of data gathered by clinical and radiographic examination into an organized, classified definition of the conditions present.

• Diagnostic Terminology - diagnosis: process of determining by examination the nature of a disease or condition
• Procedures - diagnosis: evaluation of signs and symptoms to determine nature of disease or condition
• Tools, Techniques, Principles, and Practitioners - diagnosis: clinical identification of disorder affecting patient

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Contents 1 Computer science and networking 2 Mathematics and logic 3 Medicine 3.1 Methods 3.2 Tools 4 Organizational development 5 Systems engineering 6 References

Diagnosis (from ancient Greek διάγνωσις = discernment) is the identification of the nature and cause of anything. Diagnosis is used in many different disciplines with variations in the use of logics, analytics, and experience to determine the cause and effect relationships. In systems engineering and computer science, diagnosis is typically used to determine the causes of symptoms, mitigations for problems, and solutions to issues.^[1][2]

Computer science and networking

• Bayesian network
• belief network
• complex event processing
• diagnosis in artificial intelligence
• event correlation
• fault management (network management)
• fault tree analysis
• Grey problem
• Rapid Problem Resolution (ITIL)
• remote diagnostics
• root cause analysis
• troubleshooting

Mathematics and logic

• Bayesian probability
• Hickam's dictum
• Occam's razor
• Sutton's law
• Diagnostics in regression analysis (regression diagnostics)

Medicine

Main article: Medical diagnosis

Methods

• CDR system
• Differential diagnosis
• Medical diagnosis
• Retrospective diagnosis

Tools

• DELTA (taxonomy)
• DXplain

Organizational development

• Organizational diagnostics

Systems engineering

• Eight Disciplines Problem Solving
• Five whys
• Machine fault diagnosis
• Problem solving

References

1. ^ Definition of diagnosis from the Online Etymology Dictionary
2. ^ A Guide to Fault Detection and Diagnosis

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - diagnose, diagnosticering

Nederlands (Dutch)
diagnose

Français (French)
n. - (Méd, fig) diagnostic, (Biol, Bot) diagnose

Deutsch (German)
n. - Diagnose, Feststellung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (ιατρ., μτφ.) διάγνωση

Italiano (Italian)
diagnosi

Português (Portuguese)
n. - diagnóstico (m)

Русский (Russian)
диагноз

Español (Spanish)
n. - diagnóstico, diagnosis

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - diagnos

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
诊断

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 診斷

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 진찰법

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 診断, 調査, 判断

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) التشخيص ( لدا أو مشكله)‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אבחנה, דיאגנוזה‬

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