MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does medical diagnosis mean? 

• MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS (noun)
  The noun MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS has 1 sense:

1. identification of a disease from its symptoms

  Familiarity information: MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Identification of a disease from its symptoms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("medical diagnosis" is a kind of...):

diagnosing; diagnosis (identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon)

Meronyms (parts of "medical diagnosis"):

diagnostic procedure; diagnostic technique (a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "medical diagnosis"):

differential diagnosis (a systematic method of diagnosing a disorder (e.g., headache) that lacks unique symptoms or signs)

medical prognosis; prognosis; prospect (a prediction of the course of a disease)

Holonyms ("medical diagnosis" is a part of...):

medical aid; medical care (professional treatment for illness or injury)

 Context examples 

Pathologist is a doctor specialized in medical diagnosis based on the macroscopic and microscopic study of structural changes of tissues and organs caused by the disease.

(Pathologist, NCI Thesaurus)