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    What was her diagnosis?
    diagnosis = identification of the cause of a problem
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    ...but I was different from Augustus: My final chapter was written upon diagnosis.  (source)
    diagnosis = identification of an illness
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    His face was serious, as if giving a diagnosis.  (source)
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    Should she have pushed the doctors harder for a clearer diagnosis?  (source)
    diagnosis = identification of the cause of an illness
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    When I was little, I was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis.  (source)
    diagnosed = found to suffer from
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    In the early stages they can't diagnose it.  (source)
    diagnose = identify (the cause of an illness)
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    But youth had gained the upper hand; and, as frequently happens, in spite of prognostications and diagnoses, nature had amused herself by saving the sick man under the physician's very nose.  (source)
    diagnoses = identification of the cause of an illness
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    Now a fraction of its former size, it employed only two full-time technicians, and they were primarily concerned with diagnosing illnesses of New Yorkers who had traveled abroad.  (source)
    diagnosing = identifying the cause of illnesses
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    She'd been undiagnosed for too long.†  (source)
    undiagnosed = of a problem's or illness' cause:  unknown
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undiagnosed means not and reverses the meaning of diagnosed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    If bravery is a medical condition, everybody's misdiagnosed me.†  (source)
    misdiagnosed = wrongly determined or identified the nature of a problem or an illness
    standard prefix: The prefix "mis-" in misdiagnosed means wrong and reverses the meaning of diagnosed. This is the same pattern you see in words like misunderstand, misbehave, and misuse.
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    Untreated because of the earlier misdiagnosis, my father's body suffocated itself.†  (source)
    misdiagnosis = the wrong identification of the cause of a problem or illness
    standard prefix: The prefix "mis-" in misdiagnosis means wrong and reverses the meaning of diagnosis. This is the same pattern you see in words like misunderstand, misbehave, and misuse.
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    But surely you saw enough symptoms to make one of your famous diagnosises.  (source)
    diagnosises = identifications of an illness
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    It seemed as if all the realities of living there had finally settled in his mind, like hearing a final diagnosis of terminal cancer.  (source)
    diagnosis = identification of an illness
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