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misdiagnoses

misdiagnoses is the plural of misdiagnosis.

misdiagnoses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misdiagnose.

Meaning of misdiagnosis

Noun

misdiagnosis (countable and uncountable, plural misdiagnoses)

  1. An incorrect diagnosis.
    • Some researchers have proposed that early social dysfunction in 22q11DS is associated with premorbidity to schizophrenia, and that these social impairments may result in a misdiagnosis of an ASD.2015 July 23, “Transcriptome Profiling of Peripheral Blood in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Reveals Functional Pathways Related to Psychosis and Autism Spectrum Disorder”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Meaning of misdiagnose

Verb

misdiagnose (third-person singular simple present misdiagnoses, present participle misdiagnosing, simple past and past participle misdiagnosed)

  1. (transitive) To incorrectly diagnose.
    • Ulcerated BCC may mimic SCC, and Bowen's disease may be misdiagnosed for the superficial and morphoeic forms.1993, W. E. De Launey, Harvey Rotstein, W. A. Land, De Launey and Land Principles and Practice of Dermatology

Questions about misdiagnoses

What is misdiagnoses the plural of?
Misdiagnoses is the plural of misdiagnosis.

Words near misdiagnoses in the dictionary

  1. misdevoting
  2. misdevotion
  3. misdevotions
  4. misdiagnose
  5. misdiagnosed
  6. misdiagnoses
  7. misdiagnosing
  8. misdiagnosis
  9. misdiagnostic
  10. misdiagram
  11. misdiagrammed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misdiagnoses (page history and authors); misdiagnosis (page history and authors); misdiagnose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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