diagnosis

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

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.

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.

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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Contents 1 Uses 1.1 In medicine 1.2 In computing 1.3 Tools 1.4 Logic 2 See also 3 References

Diagnosis (Greek: διάγνωση, from δια dia- "apart-split", and γνώση gnosi "to learn, knowledge") is the identification of the nature of anything, either by process of elimination or other analytical methods. Diagnosis is used in many different disciplines, with slightly different implementations on the application of logic and experience to determine the cause and effect relationships. Below are given as examples and tools used by the respective professions in medicine, science, engineering, business. Diagnosis also is used in many other trades and professions to determine the causes of symptoms, mitigations for problems, or solutions to issues.^[1]

Uses

In medicine

• Medical diagnosis
• Differential diagnosis
• Retrospective diagnosis
• Bayesian probability

In computing

• Grey Area Diagnosis
• RPR Problem Diagnosis
• Remote diagnostics
• CDR Computer Based Assessment

Tools

• DELTA (taxonomy)
• DXplain
• Frequency probability
• Probability interpretations

Logic

• Zebra (medical)
• Sutton's law
• Occam's razor
• Hickam's dictum

See also

• Diagnosis (artificial intelligence)
• Organizational diagnostics

References

1. ^ Definition of diagnosis from the Online Etymology Dictionary

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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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