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differential diagnosis en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The process of determining which disease, from a set of possible candidates, is causing a patient's symptoms.
   • Case reports in arthropathies less often rely on macroscopy alone[…]. A factor here is that these tend to concentrate on the rarer forms of arthritis […] that require careful differential diagnosis for which the radiological appearance is often critical. 2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 23:
2. (countable, uncountable) A list of possible causes of a primary symptom or a collection of symptoms.
   • 2000 August 15, Harry D. McKinnon and Thomas Howard, “Evaluating the Febrile Patient with a Rash”, in American Family Physician, American Academy of Family Physicians, page 804, The differential diagnosis for febrile patients with a rash is extensive.

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Translations (13)

id diagnosis pembanding (list of possible causes) · cs diferenciální diagnóza (process of diagnosis from a set of candidates) · nl differentiële diagnose (process of diagnosis from a set of candidates) · id diagnosis diferensial (list of possible causes) · cmn 鑒別診斷 /鉴别诊断 (process of diagnosis from a set of candidates) · hu differenciáldiagnózis (process of diagnosis from a set of candidates) · id diagnosis banding (list of possible causes) · el διαφοροδιάγνωση (process of diagnosis from a set of candidates) · fi erotusdiagnostiikka (process of diagnosis from a set of candidates) · nl differentiële diagnose (list of possible causes) · fi erotusdiagnoosi (list of possible causes) · cmn 鑒別診斷 /鉴别诊断 (list of possible causes) · nl differentiaaldiagnose (process of diagnosis from a set of candidates)