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  • Later, she told me that seven months had passed since she'd been diagnosed.   (source)
    diagnosed = had her illness identified
  • Beatty knocked his pipe into the palm of his pink hand, studied the ashes as if they were a symbol to be diagnosed and searched for meaning.   (source)
    diagnosed = analyzed and figured out
  • Easy job he's got, diagnosis by phone.   (source)
    diagnosis = the identification of the cause of an illness
  • She knew that my cancer diagnosis was grim.   (source)
    diagnosis = identification (as in identifying an illness)
  • The diagnosis was paranoid schizophrenia, and his life, as he had lived it until then, was over.   (source)
    diagnosis = the name of a disease that was determined to be the cause of an illness
  • Without a diagnosis, they couldn't treat our son.   (source)
    diagnosis = determination of the nature of a problem or an illness
  • Henrietta's tumor had been incorrectly diagnosed.   (source)
    diagnosed = identified (determined)
  • kids aren't allowed to use the public telephone at Franklin High unless they get a special pass. And even then it's got to be to call your mother to say that the school nurse has just diagnosed leprosy or something.   (source)
    diagnosed = determined that someone has a particular illness
  • Lisa Cody didn't have a diagnosis yet.   (source)
    diagnosis = determination of the cause of her illness
  • Mr. Bykovski's daughter, Esther, had been in my class until she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and had to go away to a special school.   (source)
    diagnosed = found to suffer from
  • I realize you haven't had adequate time to arrive at a proper diagnosis of the patient, but you have had a chance at observing him in action.   (source)
    diagnosis = identification of the illness
  • I was diagnosed with ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease.   (source)
    diagnosed = found to have an illness
  • I have been diagnosed with a fatal illness and would love to undergo the same procedure as you.   (source)
    diagnosed = found to have (a specific illness)
  • In one study of former Pacific POWs, more than a quarter had been diagnosed with alcoholism.†   (source)
  • "Pyramidal tract involvement," Denton Deere whispered, trying to impress Angela with his diagnosis.†   (source)
  • She is always diagnosing me.†   (source)
  • Edgar's mother had taken one of the older dogs to see Doctor Papineau that week and he had diagnosed hypothyroid.†   (source)
  • It was an easy diagnosis.†   (source)
  • Similarly, Mamaw's occasional references to Mom "getting loaded" seemed like random comments of a woman known for her willingness to say anything, not a diagnosis of a deteriorating reality.†   (source)
  • Diagnosed with dyslexia.†   (source)
  • Mr. Traynor suffered a spinal injury in g road accident in 2007 and had been diagnosed C5-6 quadriplegic with very limited movement in one arm only, requiring twenty-four-hour care.†   (source)
  • But a person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart!†   (source)
  • Diagnosis†   (source)
  • As they climbed it, the various Healers called out to them, diagnosing odd complaints and suggesting horrible remedies.†   (source)
  • She looks surprised, but straightens (with a small grimace, which reinforces my diagnosis of lower back pain) and reads: I. My parents have no relatives who are appropriate to accept legal responsibility for me.†   (source)
  • The diagnosis had come down only two years earlier, though the symptoms had been visible years before that.†   (source)
  • It was not lost on me that Rose hadn't bought anything to wear since the diagnosis, had possibly not paused for very long in front of a mirror since that time.†   (source)
  • Well, I guess she's going to have change her diagnosis: I am not unassertive.†   (source)
  • Doctors and officials, not knowing how to cure the disease, decided to force all those diagnosed with it to a remote section of the island of Molokai.†   (source)
  • "I don't see anything cute about it," my mother said when she heard my shiny new diagnosis.†   (source)
  • The word had refinement, and the weight of medical diagnosis.†   (source)
  • John's diagnosis was an acute congestion of the stomach.†   (source)
  • "I would be lying," Dr. Erland continued, "if I said that I had not harbored secret hopes of finding an antidote in time to save His Majesty, though I knew from the moment the diagnosis was made that it was unlikely.†   (source)
  • I know, I know," I said, at her startled (and slightly alarmed) look—"every time I see Barbara she tells me I need to chant Um or Rum or whatever to heal, like, the blocked chakras—'deficient muladhara' — I'm not kidding you, that was her diagnosis of me, 'unrooted ...' 'constriction of the heart ..."fragmented energy field ...'†   (source)
  • He was forty-two years old and in excellent health, with the exception of a bout of bronchitis that had been diagnosed ten days before.†   (source)
  • The doctors diagnosed reflux and referred us to a specialist, who sedated our baby boy and snaked a scope down his throat to scrutinize his insides.†   (source)
  • I knew it was the stress of the diagnosis that caused it.†   (source)
  • In two months I could distill liquor until it was too strong to drink, bandage a wound, set a bone, and diagnose hundreds of sicknesses from symptoms.†   (source)
  • The doctor called by Helena Lewicka diagnosed acute inflammation of the gall bladder and recommended a strict diet.†   (source)
  • She had to buy medicines because ("Don't tell Mama") she had been diagnosed with tuberculosis.†   (source)
  • And last, one of the voice mails is from his chief, Joan Schaeffer, who tells him that a patient he had diagnosed with pneumonia just before his trip to Kabul turned out to have congestive heart failure instead.†   (source)
  • After her heart disease was diagnosed, my physician brothers wanted to schedule her for further tests with top heart specialists, but she refused.†   (source)
  • Good mechanics, the kind who used to fix cars before computerized diagnostics, use pattern recognition to diagnose engine troubles: if this and this are happening, then check that.†   (source)
  • Any diagnosis I could make would be of the most basic sort.†   (source)
  • I waited to hear the diagnosis for the mental illness Mrs. Lincoln thought Lena suffered from—the state of being different.†   (source)
  • Several hours later she called again: A doctor had come and diagnosed pneumonia.†   (source)
  • "I hope," he said in a low voice, "that I am doing you a favor with this diagnosis."†   (source)
  • After our complicated birth, physicians in Atlanta pronounced many diagnoses on my asymmetrical brain, including Wernicke's and Broca's aphasia, and sent my parents home over the icy roads on Christmas Eve with one-half a set of perfect twins and the prediction that I might possibly someday learn to read but would never speak a word.†   (source)
  • But I am fairly confident of my diagnosis.†   (source)
  • Not even a terminal diagnosis of aggressive throat cancer had knocked her from her perch.†   (source)
  • I might have been diagnosed with a terminal illness.†   (source)
  • Sophie was diagnosed as profoundly deaf.†   (source)
  • Any diagnosis?†   (source)
  • These words of Father Restrepo were etched in the family memory with all the gravity of a diagnosis, and in the years to come they had more than one occasion to recall them.†   (source)
  • She had diagnosed the problem: the younger boys were trying to show off.†   (source)
  • As the seizures worsened, Maranda's parents took her from specialist to specialist and received varying diagnoses.†   (source)
  • I have learned that one of his therapists diagnosed him with ADD (attention deficit disorder).†   (source)
  • Felipe was diagnosed with schizophrenia at about age eleven, and takes multiple medications for it.†   (source)
  • Still down on his knees, with all eyes fixed upon him, Dr. Leale announced his diagnosis and prediction: "His wound is mortal; it is impossible for him to recover."†   (source)
  • The diagnosis was an intestinal infection of alimentary origin, which was cured by three days of treatment at home.†   (source)
  • This had consequently become associated with the great difficulty of even diagnosing her mental deficiencies.†   (source)
  • I pull down books, shake them by their spines willing something to fall out—a forgotten lab result, an official diagnosis.†   (source)
  • I thought he was going to tell me his diagnosis, and that perhaps I had judged him too hastily and too unkindly.†   (source)
  • I expected it to resolve itself and heal within moments of being diagnosed and beginning the required course of treatment.†   (source)
  • If you run too far, you might be a masochist, an anorexic, or another type, and you will have to see an Official of Psychology for diagnosis.†   (source)
  • Is it defeatist or treacherous for a doctor to diagnose a disease correctly?†   (source)
  • Ruth puzzled over the diagnosis: How could such a beautiful-sounding word apply to such a destructive disease?†   (source)
  • The Sherpas, however, had a different diagnosis: they believed that one of the climbers on Fischer's team had angered Everest-Sagarmatha, goddess of the sky-and the deity had taken her revenge on Ngawang.†   (source)
  • He was known to be a very good doctor, with a talent for diagnosis and a reputation for skillful work.†   (source)
  • It is true, these same trivial errors did cause me some anxiety at first, but once I had had time to diagnose them correctly as symptoms of nothing more than a straightforward staff shortage, I have refrained from giving them much thought.†   (source)
  • What kind of condition might we expect to have diagnosed in a facility called Autumn Harvest Farms?†   (source)
  • And then later that day he went to the doctor and they diagnosed him with pancreatic cancer.†   (source)
  • Most of these cases are never reported to authorities or properly diagnosed.†   (source)
  • Before heading home, Adam had told his teammates that he was more frightened of Kelley's response than he was of the doctor's diagnosis.†   (source)
  • Unable to diagnose himself, in severe pain, and unable to continue with his work, he presented himself to Dr. Antonia Bagshawe, a physician at Nairobi Hospital.†   (source)
  • We Seekers prefer a different sort of diagnosis.†   (source)
  • In rural Cambodia, an HIV diagnosis felt like a death sentence, and Neth didn't think she had long to live.†   (source)
  • He had expected the word, the diagnosis, would make her feel better, but instead it seemed to fill her eyes with fresh tears.†   (source)
  • More extensive evaluation would be necessary to make an exact psychiatric diagnosis, but his present personality structure is very nearly that of a paranoid schizophrenic reaction.†   (source)
  • Finally, I was diagnosed as having a rare kidney disease which was incurable.†   (source)
  • But now she had it all diagnosed, deduced, clear.†   (source)
  • The casual and wealthy Phillip Arden, who lately has been getting "come hither" e-mails from girls who've met him around campus, greeted his father-who flew in on his Lear jet-with an unwelcomed development; mononucleosis, just diagnosed.†   (source)
  • With the help of your x-ray vision, maybe you can definitively diagnose—†   (source)
  • The strange behavior—the so-called "madness" of King George III—for which he would be long remembered, did not come until much later, more than twenty years later, and rather than mental illness, it appears to have been porphyria, a hereditary disease not diagnosed until the twentieth century.†   (source)
  • But the day after their engagement, she's diagnosed with leukemia.†   (source)
  • And if the crowd does express its disapproval, it merely goads him on to bigger and better things, much in the way Tomas was spurred on by the difficulty of a diagnosis.†   (source)
  • Nobody took Rumfoord's diagnosis seriously.†   (source)
  • The tools for uncovering tuberculosis belong to an older era in medicine, and the diagnosis can be tricky, especially in someone with HIV.†   (source)
  • Raspton chose a young resident who looked stunned at being singled out—"give us your diagnosis."†   (source)
  • A colonel with a large forehead and horn-rimmed glasses soon arrived at a diagnosis.†   (source)
  • The book says that about 30 percent of people who have AIDS are diagnosed in their twenties, WOW!†   (source)
  • You get a lot more clues in actual diagnosis.†   (source)
  • I WAS SIX WHEN MY FATHER WAS DIAGNOSED WITH PANCREATIC CANCER That year my mother and I were driving together in the car.†   (source)
  • Dad was battling what had been diagnosed as terminal colon cancer.†   (source)
  • Diagnosis or possibility?†   (source)
  • After he sold out, and after he was diagnosed with lung cancer, he consolidated his records and spent more time at Berring.†   (source)
  • Roberts offers a quick diagnosis and hangs up after a few minutes, thinking to himself that Marilyn is once again up to no good.†   (source)
  • Severe Depressive Episodes: High Risk of Suicide was the initial diagnosis on the commitment papers he signed last January.†   (source)
  • Today a battle-scarred Ira Hayes would be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress syndrome, and there would be understanding and treatment available to him.†   (source)
  • By eight, she began suffering frequent seizures and was diagnosed as an epileptic.†   (source)
  • Hallucinations, I hear Pop in my head, making a diagnosis.†   (source)
  • He was diagnosed two and a half years ago.†   (source)
  • This spring they diagnosed it as the beginning symptoms of mental illness.†   (source)
  • "Your diagnosis is exactly that of my specialist," Mr. Norton said, "and I went to several fine physicians before one could diagnose it.†   (source)
  • You'd better stop there, because I'm not confirming any blind diagnosis.†   (source)
  • The doctor arrives and makes his diagnosis: chicken pox.†   (source)
  • He was ill with some type of lung disease, but it was not diagnosed, as my father had never visited a doctor.†   (source)
  • Norberto looked down and cried when Cesar translated this diagnosis.†   (source)
  • Understand, MPD is anything but a precise diagnosis, and I can understand the temptation to pin it on Ryan—it would answer plenty of questions.†   (source)
  • With the help of some microbrigade friends in the capital, Celia tracks down the santera from east Havana who had diagnosed her in 1934, when she was dying of love for the Spaniard.†   (source)
  • His father had been patient with the old man, listening sympathetically, nodding, stroking his cheek as if he were preparing a diagnosis.†   (source)
  • Anyway, it was only after we ran all the tests that our diagnosis was confirmed.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hyde told the inquest that her mother-in-law, Mrs. Marijke Hyde, currently in a nursing home, had been diagnosed as suffering from a degenerative mental illness and that Mr. Hyde had "coped very badly" with the situation.†   (source)
  • Alex was diagnosed with pronounced autism.†   (source)
  • So with Eddie and Doc and Oscar Johnson, he spent time diagramming new plays, figuring strategy, diagnosing weaknesses and devising ways to correct them.†   (source)
  • The diagnosis was rheumatoid arthritis.†   (source)
  • He was looking from one of the Silent Brothers to the other with a curious listlessness, like someone who had received countless terminal diagnoses from different doctors and now, having reached the end of the line, waited without much hope for a specialist's verdict.†   (source)
  • But a few more mining accidents and a few more cancer diagnoses because of all the pollution, and he might get ridden out of here on a rail.†   (source)
  • He examines them, tests them, diagnoses them, even treats them.†   (source)
  • I saw her alive only a few times, the last time just before the diagnosis, when she dropped off his lunch in a brown bag and kissed him twice on top of his wiry-haired salt-and-pepper head.†   (source)
  • Granny had suffered a nervous breakdown and was diagnosed with manic depression.†   (source)
  • later she'd learned to talk professionally — to present cases past differential diagnoses and treatment plans, she managed nothing.†   (source)
  • I'd never placed a lot of faith in psychiatry before I met Tom, but his uncanny ability to diagnose personality disorders and psychotic illnesses made a believer of me.†   (source)
  • Granny was diagnosed as manic-depressive and was twice confined to the Louisiana mental institute at Pineville, where she received electric-shock therapy, a treatment in vogue at the time.†   (source)
  • And the way they trained in diagnostics was simple: You diagnosed for up to thirty-six hours at a time.†   (source)
  • Has one of you been diagnosed with some terminal disease?†   (source)
  • "I don't believe that you have any of the disorders those doctors diagnosed you with, Sofia," she said.†   (source)
  • He recites facts I already know about suicide and teenagers, and then we go around the room and say our names and how old we are and the thing we've been diagnosed with and if we've had any firsthand experience trying to kill ourselves.†   (source)
  • GUIL: Thwarted ambition-a sense of grievance, that's my diagnosis.†   (source)
  • I'd like a little closer diagnosis.†   (source)
  • ...And speaking of medicine, how fine if the computer and medical people diagnosing you for anything had instant access to all your past medical history!†   (source)
  • And although it was Nathan's own keen if nonprofessional diagnosis which so accurately pegged the nature of Sophie's malady very soon after their encounter at the Brooklyn College library, his brother was instrumental in helping to find a cure for that problem too.†   (source)
  • You want my diagnosis?†   (source)
  • He diagnosed this negative intelligence as more ominous than almost anything that could have happened, and determined to awaken General Hawker if it persisted.†   (source)
  • He then takes from his pocket a pair of spectacles and from the basket a book) COMMON MAN (Reading) "Whether we follow tradition in ascribing Wolsey's death to a broken heart, or accept Professor Larcomb's less feeling diagnosis of pulmonary pneumonia, its effective cause was the King's displeasure.†   (source)
  • The cause of death had been an attack of suffocation resulting from acute edema of the lungs; this had not been diagnosed in time.†   (source)
  • "Complete nervous breakdown," diagnosed Tony, who was just off to bed.†   (source)
  • 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
  • Chapter 3 — Diagnosis and Treatment†   (source)
    diagnosis = the identification of the cause of a problem or illness
  • Most of us are diagnosed with attention deficit disorder or dyslexia, or both—".†   (source)
  • I was very tempted to tell him I was diagnosed with lung cancer.†   (source)
  • "I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.†   (source)
  • His dad has been diagnosed with the Flare, is already showing signs of it.†   (source)
  • I'm fine, Dr. House, but thanks for the diagnosis.†   (source)
  • Not that either of us could diagnose her without seeing her, but I suspect she'll be home soon.†   (source)
  • After seeing Clara, he confirmed Jaime's diagnosis.†   (source)
  • But then the MS diagnosis arrived and most of that was gone.†   (source)
  • After the cancer diagnosis, she had stayed up for days.†   (source)
  • A brain biopsy enabled them to reach a further confirmation of the diagnosis.†   (source)
  • The diagnosis was simple: a broken fibula.†   (source)
  • Without the CT scan, they couldn't diagnose.†   (source)
  • She was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with Parkinson's and low-grade dementia.†   (source)
  • She could hear a baby cry from across the room and diagnose exactly what was wrong.†   (source)
  • After Lisa Cody got her diagnosis, the Lisas started making more trouble.†   (source)
  • I don't believe this diagnosis, Alzheimer's.†   (source)
  • He was there with his wife, and they were struggling with his recent cancer diagnosis.†   (source)
  • It is possible to quickly diagnose the health of a marriage.†   (source)
  • There won't be any diagnosis," she says.†   (source)
  • The diagnosis is "confidential," but we all assumed his ulcers were acting up.†   (source)
  • I'm curious to know her every thought, her diagnosis, her prognosis, her prescription.†   (source)
  • Like, for example, that Peter had a psychiatric diagnosis?†   (source)
  • At age eighty-three, my dad was diagnosed with leukemia.†   (source)
  • Old Shinny had been clearly puzzled as well, but in the end he had concurred with the diagnosis.†   (source)
  • As I trailed my fingers along the racks I forgot about the diagnosis for minutes on end.†   (source)
  • She knows she made a mistake and that it wasn't her place to diagnose your father.†   (source)
  • She tried to figure a way to translate the diagnosis into a condition her mother would accept.†   (source)
  • But a diagnosis isn't of much interest to Ragins.†   (source)
  • Dr. Billford, shaken to within an inch of sanity himself, diagnosed catalepsy.†   (source)
  • November 2002—Todd feels a lump in his chest that is diagnosed as hyperplasia.†   (source)
  • Jones cut a small sample and sent it to the pathology lab down the hall for a diagnosis.†   (source)
  • "The man was insane," Denton Deere diagnosed.†   (source)
  • After Shatner learned of my diagnosis, he sent me a photo of himself as Kirk.†   (source)
  • On Valentine's Day, my sister Rose had been diagnosed with breast cancer.†   (source)
  • "It's okay," Mae said, though she didn't know how she felt about the woman's diagnosis.†   (source)
  • The disorder is more commonly diagnosed in women.†   (source)
  • If the diagnosis was correct, Reilley knew time was short.†   (source)
  • She heaped sugar into the tea, having diagnosed herself as suffering from hypoglycemia.†   (source)
  • The doctor in Imperial had diagnosed him with stomach flu.†   (source)
  • On our trips, he often attacked my character—that character once diagnosed as disordered.†   (source)
  • At one point I taught physical diagnosis to first —and second-year students.†   (source)
  • But at least she finally believes the diagnosis is real and that ginseng tea isn't a cure-all.†   (source)
  • "Coronary thrombosis," the intern diagnosed, "but that's just an educated guess.†   (source)
  • He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and calmed with heavy doses of Thorazine.†   (source)
  • It was quick, and she was pretty active until the diagnosis.†   (source)
  • I replied: "Randy Pausch: He Lived Thirty Years After a Terminal Diagnosis."†   (source)
  • "They diagnosed my sister with idiocy?" she said, then started reading the definition out loud.†   (source)
  • "Nasal drip," Denton Deere whispered, confiding the latest diagnosis to his partner.†   (source)
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