misdiagnose
misdiagnose
Definition
mis·di·ag·nose (mis′dī′əg nōs′, -nōz′)
transitive verb, intransitive verb -·nosed′, -·nos′·ing
to make an incorrect diagnosis of (a disease, condition, etc.)
mis′·di′·ag·no′·sis (-nō′sis) noun pl. -·ses′-sēz′
misdiagnose
Usage Examples
Object
- hundred: Alexander Harris Solicitors Home » News » Dr. who misdiagnosed hundreds of children with epilepsy is judged fit to practice Jump to navigation.
- cancer: God brought my son in law home, and the doctors misdiagnosed the cancer.
- problem: If I did not communicate clearly and effectively I would misdiagnose the problem and not achieve the desired outcome of solving the customers problem.
- epilepsy: Management at the Leicester Royal Infirmary have admitted that a pediatric neurologist at the hospital misdiagnosed epilepsy or over-prescribed drugs in 170 children.
- consultant: A hospital consultant misdiagnosed almost a third of his patients as epileptic, a report says.
- illness: A prolonged period of misdiagnosed illness sidelined him from active politics until he had a major operation in 1998 for cancer.
Preposition: with
- epilepsy: It is possible for some people to be misdiagnosed with epilepsy.
Preposition: as
- epilepsy: In children and adults fainting is commonly misdiagnosed as epilepsy.
- disorder: These figures are likely to be underestimates since prion diseases may be misdiagnosed as other neurological disorders.
Modifying Another Word
- frequently: It appears to be more common than previously recognized and may be frequently misdiagnosed.
- often: The Guardian, Thursday 29 June Parkinson's disease is often misdiagnosed, according to new research.
- commonly: In children and adults fainting is commonly misdiagnosed as epilepsy.
- sometimes: Vertigo Vertigo has many causes, but is often paroxysmal, and as a result is sometimes misdiagnosed as epilepsy.
- routinely: A consequence of psychological trauma is often depression; psychological trauma is routinely misdiagnosed in this way.
- consistently: I also suffer from a debilitating degenerative disease that has been consistently misdiagnosed a lazyness.
Adjective modifier
- common: Following feedback from previous courses we have included the topics of out-of-hours scanning and common neuroradiological misdiagnoses.
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