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What does diagnose mean?

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  1. (medicine) To determine which disease is causing a sick person's signs and symptoms; to find the diagnosis.
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They have had him on an intravenous drip, and they need to try to diagnose exactly what is wrong with him.
Your doctor can diagnose migraines on the basis of the symptoms your child describes.
Veterinarians diagnose strongyle infection from microscopic observation of eggs in the feces.
The doctor will take a history and perform a thorough physical exam, and may order a chest X-ray or blood tests to diagnose the condition.
When individual animals seem unable to reproduce, keepers can call in physiologists to diagnose possible biological problems.
But we know it wouldn't be a good thing to diagnose half the population with prostate cancer and do radical prostatectomies on them.

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