All 6 Uses of
diagnose
in
Of Human Bondage
- A few questions, a brief examination, and the diagnosis.†
Chpt 67-68 *diagnosis = the identification of the cause of a problem or illness
- This was a large volume in which were written down the name, age, sex, profession, of the patient and the diagnosis of his disease.†
Chpt 81-82
- The diagnosis of dangerous illness would be accepted by one with a laugh and a joke, by another with dumb despair.†
Chpt 81-82
- It was manifold and various; there were tears and laughter, happiness and woe; it was tedious and interesting and indifferent; it was as you saw it: it was tumultuous and passionate; it was grave; it was sad and comic; it was trivial; it was simple and complex; joy was there and despair; the love of mothers for their children, and of men for women; lust trailed itself through the rooms with leaden feet, punishing the guilty and the innocent, helpless wives and wretched children; drink seized men and women and cost its inevitable price; death sighed in these rooms; and the beginning of life, filling some poor girl with terror and shame, was diagnosed there.†
Chpt 81-82diagnosed = determined or identified the nature of a problem or an illness
- You have diagnosed my case, and you think it's very wrong of me to drink absinthe.'†
Chpt 81-82
- Once or twice he made a mistake in diagnosis: (he had never seen a case of measles before, and when he was confronted with the rash took it for an obscure disease of the skin;) and once or twice his ideas of treatment differed from Doctor South's.†
Chpt 115-116diagnosis = the identification of the cause of a problem or illness
Definition:
determine or identify the nature of a problem or an illness