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Plural of diagnosis: the process of discovering exactly what is wrong with someone or something, by examining them closely.

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Used as a noun, listen here, it means: Plural of diagnosis: the process of discovering exactly what is wrong with someone or something, by examining them closely. Used as a verb, listen here, it means: Third person singular of diagnose: to find out what illness someone has, or what the cause of a fault is, after doing tests, examinations, etc.

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  • When all the tests results were in, it turned out the doctor had made three diagnoses.
  • (Now that mammography is routine, the rate of increase in diagnoses has slowed.)
  • Agree with Apperception: just how much variation there are in diagnoses in these comments is pretty surprising.
  • The increase in diagnoses, already a cause for concern, accelerated in the 1980s, growing by a rate of four percent a year.
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  • The patient was relieved to get a "diagnosis" (an evaluation of a physical condition) of indigestion instead of other more dangerous "diagnoses" (plural of diagnosis).
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