overdiagnosisn.
/ˌəʊvədʌɪəɡˈnəʊsɪs/, U.S. /ˈˌoʊvərˌdaɪəɡˈnoʊsəs/ Excessively frequent (and hence occasionally incorrect) diagnosis of a particular disease, etc. Also occasionally: an instance of this.
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1955 Brit. Jrnl. Preventive & Social Med. Apr. 67/1 The authors' opinion inclines to the possibility of underdiagnosis of lung cancer rather than to its overdiagnosis in the two bronchitic series.
1971 Jrnl. Canad. Assoc. Radiologists 22 184 (title) Potential over-diagnosis of pancreatic islet cell adenomas.
1989 R. Littlewood & M. Lipsedge Aliens & Alienists (ed. 2) xii. 292 In Britain there has been concern about the overdiagnosis of schizophrenia.
2000 Columbia Encycl. (ed. 6) 32410 Such factors..led to what came to be regarded as a rash of overdiagnoses of multiple personality.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1955- to put aside
- to put asunder
- to put at
- to put at advantage
- to put at an advantage
- to put at no reverence
- to put at one's worse
- to put at rest
- to put at the stone
- to put at the worse
- to put at the worst
- to put away
- to put back
- to put back in his box
- to put back in his etc box
- to put back in his her box
- to put back into his box
- to put back into his etc box
- to put back into his her box
- to put back on the map
- to put back the clock
- to put bad mouth on
- to put before
- to put before to
- to put behind