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retrodiagnosed

retrodiagnosed is the simple past and past participle of retrodiagnose.

Meaning of retrodiagnose

Verb

retrodiagnose (third-person singular simple present retrodiagnoses, present participle retrodiagnosing, simple past and past participle retrodiagnosed)

  1. To retroactively diagnose a dead person with a medical or psychological condition.
    • Rather than retrodiagnosing colonial patients through glimpses and gaps in their stories—was this one a paranoid schizophrenic? did that one suffer major depressive psychosis? was a third borderline?— […]2007, Richard C. Keller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa, The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 85

Questions about retrodiagnosed

What is retrodiagnosed the simple past and past participle of?
Retrodiagnosed is the simple past and past participle of retrodiagnose.

Words near retrodiagnosed in the dictionary

  1. retrodeformations
  2. retrodeformed
  3. retrodeforming
  4. retrodeforms
  5. retrodiagnose
  6. retrodiagnosed
  7. retrodiagnoses
  8. retrodiagnosing
  9. retrodialysed
  10. retrodialysis
  11. retrodict

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