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misdiagnose

/mis-dahy-uhg-nohs, -nohz, mis-dahy-uhg-nohs, -nohz/US // mɪsˈdaɪ əgˌnoʊs, -ˌnoʊz, ˌmɪs daɪ əgˈnoʊs, -ˈnoʊz //UK // (ˌmɪsˈdaɪəɡˌnəʊz) //

误诊,误判,诊断错误,错误诊断

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    mis·di·ag·nosed, mis·di·ag·nos·ing.

    • : to make an incorrect diagnosis.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    mis·di·ag·nosed, mis·di·ag·nos·ing.

    • : to diagnose erroneously: to misdiagnose the nation's ills.

Examples

  • Public awareness is growing around the way that women are all too frequently being dismissed and misdiagnosed.

  • The rate that medical professionals misdiagnose conscious individuals as unconscious during behavioral assessment is thought to be near 40 percent.

  • Personally, I have three friends whose mothers were misdiagnosed with anxiety11 when they had serious illnesses, and two of them died.

  • Parents reasoned that since it is so hard to accurately diagnose childhood multiple sclerosis and prognosis is so varied, there was a chance that their children were misdiagnosed and they could recover and live normal lives.

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