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misdiagnose /mɪsˈdʌɪəɡnəʊz /verb [with object]1Make an incorrect diagnosis of (an illness): the most common form of pneumonia is widely misdiagnosed...- Not only are such spurious therapies nauseating in their own right, but they misdiagnose the disease.
- When she sought medical help, doctors misdiagnosed her illness as tuberculosis and she was directed to a hospital in Pondicherry.
- Appropriate investigations and interpretation of results is necessary to avoid misdiagnosing Cushing's syndrome.
1.1Make an incorrect diagnosis of the illness from which (someone) is suffering: the consultant misdiagnosed her as having cancer...- You may not have heard of it before, and despite a growing community of groups keen to get the word out, people are often misdiagnosed with terrible consequences, as you'll hear.
- Before the cancer diagnosis, he was misdiagnosed with costochondritus, a rare and severe form of arthritis.
- It turned out that she was misdiagnosed as having Crohn's, but she was glad to have given her body an overhaul, particularly when she suffered a perforated appendix a few years later.
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