Synonyms for diagnosis
ˌdaɪ əgˈnoʊ sɪsdi·ag·no·sis

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1. diagnosis, diagnosingnoun

   identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon

   Synonyms:
   diagnosing

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1. • Identification

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1. List of paraphrases for "diagnosis":

   diagnostic, diagnostics, diagnose, diagnosing, diagnoses, diagnosed, diag, detection

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1. Amit Etkin:

   As a clinician and neuroscientist, I would argue it validates a sense a lot of clinicians implicitly have, but our diagnosis system discourages— that there are a lot of similarities between the way patients with different disorders process information, [The findings] allow us to think a little bit more flexibly about our patients and focus on things that don’t fit into [Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)] categories.

2. Jim Hagedorn:

   Over the weekend, recent tests conducted at the Mayo Clinic revealed a reoccurrence of my kidney cancer. The new diagnosis was surprising considering that just 14 weeks ago no cancer was detected.

3. Catherine Lomen-Hoerth:

   Treatments work best when given prior to symptoms starting or at the very start of symptom onset. This is something not possible with sporadic ALS because it takes time to establish a diagnosis, and by then, the symptoms can be quite advanced, while this treatment would only affect 2% of ALS patients, it may be much more impactful than other treatments for ALS, since it can be administered much earlier in the disease process -- perhaps even before a patient develops symptoms.

4. Andrew Roorda:

   We should be skeptical of leaky gut as a diagnosis, further, we should not adopt any proposed treatments that are currently being marketed unless they are proven effective.

5. Amit Etkin:

   The only information we use for diagnosis is what [the patient] reports; in other words, their symptoms and the way we observe them, sitting in front of them.