DIAGNOSE
Dictionary entry overview: What does diagnose mean?
• DIAGNOSE (verb)
The verb DIAGNOSE has 2 senses:
1. determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis
2. subject to a medical analysis
Familiarity information: DIAGNOSE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DIAGNOSE (verb)
Meaning:
Determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
diagnose; name
Hypernyms (to "diagnose" is one way to...):
analyse; analyze; canvas; canvass; examine; study (consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "diagnose"):
explore (examine minutely)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Subject to a medical analysis
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "diagnose" is one way to...):
analyse; analyze; canvas; canvass; examine; study (consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning)
Domain category:
medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "diagnose"):
explore (examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
