wastebasket diagnosis


A diagnosis which may be based on a fad, not proven to exist, not physiologically explained, or not described with specificity, and thus so broadly inclusive to the point of being scientifically useless

wastebasket diagnosis

Medtalk noun A diagnosis which may be faddish, not proven to exist, or physiologically explained, or described with specificity, and thus so broadly inclusive to the point of being scientifically useless