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单词 diagnosis
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diagnosisn.

/dʌɪəɡˈnəʊsɪs/
Forms: Plural diagnoses.
Etymology: < Latin diagnōsis, Greek διάγνωσις, noun of action < διαγιγνώσκειν to distinguish, discern, < δια- through, thoroughly, asunder + γιγνώσκειν to learn to know, perceive. In French diagnose in Molière: compare diagnose v.
1.
a. Medicine. Determination of the nature of a diseased condition; identification of a disease by careful investigation of its symptoms and history; also, the opinion (formally stated) resulting from such investigation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > [noun] > diagnosis
judicial?1527
knowledge?1541
diagnosis1681
diacrisis1854
1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Diagnosis, dilucidation, or knowledg.
1791 P. P. Price (title) A treatise on the diagnosis and prognosis of disease.
1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 199 It is in the diagnosis..of pneumonia..that the greatest practical benefit of auscultation will be found.
1855 O. W. Holmes Poems 274 The diagnosis was made out, They tapped the patient; so he died.
1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) i. 8 The crows can form a pretty correct diagnosis upon the case of a sick camel.
1878 H. S. Wilson Alpine Ascents iv. 132 Then came the diagnosis—to wit a severe contusion and strain of right knee.
b. transferred and figurative.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > [noun] > according to rule or standard
examinationc1405
exam1568
reckoning1569
audit1839
diagnosis1855
1855 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. ii. xvii. 284 Perception is essentially a diagnosis.
1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 113 Our diagnosis of the character of a person.
1892 Spectator 1 Oct. 438/1 [Swindlers] seem to possess, in an extraordinarily high degree, the power of moral diagnosis,—of telling what are the weak spots in the mind of the ordinary man.
2. Biology etc. Distinctive characterization in precise terms, (of a genus, species, etc.).
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the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [noun] > identification or classification
diagnosis1840
specification1878
typing1900
phage-typing1942
1840 W. Whewell Philos. Inductive Sci. I. viii. ii. 492 The Characteristick has been termed by some English Botanists the Diagnosis of plants; a word which we may conveniently adopt.
1853 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 371 Tiliaceæ, Linden~blooms..Diagnosis.—Malval Exogens, with free stamens on the outside of a disk, albuminous seeds, and straight embryo.
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 235 Specimens..in a fit condition for diagnosis.
1858 W. Whewell Novum Organon Renov. 23 The Diagnosis, or Scheme of the Characters, comes, in the order of philosophy, after the Classification.
1874 W. S. Jevons Princ. Sci. (1877) 708 This operation of discovering to which class of a system a certain specimen or case belongs, is generally called Diagnosis.
1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 10 The ‘Genera Piscium’ contains well-defined diagnoses of 45 genera.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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