All 8 Uses
diagnose
in
The Fault in Our Stars
(Edited)
- Then we introduced ourselves: Name. Age. Diagnosis. And how we're doing today.
p. 5.3diagnosis = specific illness
- ...diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen.
p. 24.3diagnosed = identified as having as specific illness
- I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period.
p. 24.3diagnosis = identification of an illness
- …and they didn't even once ask me about the oxygen or my diagnosis, which was weird and wonderful,
p. 29.2diagnosis = specific illness
- This was before your diagnosis?
p. 31.5diagnosis = identification of an illness
- I was diagnosed when—
p. 32.6diagnosed = identified as having as specific illness
- ...but I was different from Augustus: My final chapter was written upon diagnosis.
p. 166.8 *diagnosis = identification of an illness
- Sick children inevitably become arrested: You are fated to live out your days as the child you were when diagnosed, the child who believes there is life after a novel ends.
p. 192.8diagnosed = identified as having as specific illness
Definitions:
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(1)
(diagnose) determine or identify the nature of a problem or an illness
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)