retrodiagnoses
retrodiagnoses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of retrodiagnose.
Meaning of retrodiagnose
Verb
retrodiagnose (third-person singular simple present retrodiagnoses, present participle retrodiagnosing, simple past and past participle retrodiagnosed)
- 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 retrodiagnoses
- What is retrodiagnoses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Retrodiagnoses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of retrodiagnose.
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