DIAGNOSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diagnosing mean? 

• DIAGNOSING (noun)
  The noun DIAGNOSING has 1 sense:

1. identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon

  Familiarity information: DIAGNOSING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIAGNOSING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Identifying the nature or cause of some phenomenon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

diagnosing; diagnosis

Hypernyms ("diagnosing" is a kind of...):

designation; identification (the act of designating or identifying something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diagnosing"):

blood typing (determining a person's blood type by serological methods)

medical diagnosis (identification of a disease from its symptoms)

uranalysis; urinalysis ((medicine) the chemical analysis of urine (for medical diagnosis))

Derivation:

diagnose (determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis)

diagnose (subject to a medical analysis)

 Context examples 

A doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating diseases and disorders of the blood and blood-forming organs.

(Hematologist, NCI Thesaurus)

A premarket submission to FDA for a device intended to benefit patients by treating or diagnosing a condition affecting fewer than 4,000 individuals in the United States per year.

(Humanitarian Device Exemption, NCI Thesaurus)

A medical geneticist is a doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating genetic disorders or conditions.

(Geneticist, NCI Dictionary)

A doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating disorders of the digestive system.

(Gastroenterologist, NCI Dictionary)

A patient's family medical history may be important in diagnosing existing conditions.

(Family medical history, NCI Thesaurus)

A substance being studied as a way of improving magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in diagnosing cancer and finding lymph nodes to which cancer has spread.

(Ferumoxtran-10, NCI Dictionary)

A doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating kidney disease.

(Nephrologist, NCI Dictionary)

A doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating brain tumors and other tumors of the nervous system.

(Neuro-oncologist, NCI Dictionary)

Pain can be helpful in diagnosing a problem.

(Pain, NIH)

A branch of radiology that focuses on diagnosing and treating diseases of children.

(Pediatric Radiology, NCI Thesaurus)