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self-diagnose

self-diagnose verb: to attempt to identify a medical condition in oneself without consulting a medical practitioner.

Verb

self-diagnose (third-person singular simple present self-diagnoses, present participle self-diagnosing, simple past and past participle self-diagnosed)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To attempt to identify a medical condition in oneself without consulting a medical practitioner.
    • Ignorant about vomiting before the incident, I was now terrified of it. I self-diagnosed myself with emetophobia – fear of vomiting.2011 July 15, Dakshana Bascaramurty, “I had never vomited. Ever.”, in The Globe and Mail
    • Among the issues they are hoping to explore are cyberhoarding—reluctance to delete information gathered online—and cyberchondria—compulsively using search engines and websites in the hope of finding reassurance about medical fears, only to self-diagnose further ailments.2018 October 8, Nicola Davis, “Cyberchondria and cyberhoarding: is internet fuelling new conditions?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  2. (intransitive, transitive) Of a system, to identify problems within itself.
    • 70% of all software failures can be self diagnosed and repaired automatically when connected to the company's diagnostic web-site.2012, John Priest, Jose Sanchez, Product Development and Design for Manufacturing (page 407)

Forms of self-diagnose

third-person singular presentself-diagnoses
present participleself-diagnosing
past participleself-diagnosed
pastself-diagnosed

Origin of self-diagnose

From self- + diagnose.

Words formed from self-diagnose

Questions about self-diagnose

What does self-diagnose mean?
Self-diagnose means to attempt to identify a medical condition in oneself without consulting a medical practitioner.
What part of speech is self-diagnose?
Self-diagnose is a verb.
What is the past tense of self-diagnose?
The past tense of self-diagnose is self-diagnosed.

Words near self-diagnose in the dictionary

  1. self-determinism
  2. self-determinist
  3. self-determinists
  4. self-devoted
  5. self-devotion
  6. self-diagnose
  7. self-diagnosed
  8. self-diagnoser
  9. self-diagnosers
  10. self-diagnoses
  11. self-diagnosing

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