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How to use diagnose in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb

Diagnose means to determine which disease is causing a sick person's signs and symptoms; to find the diagnosis. Example: “We need to conduct an overnight sleep test to diagnose your sleep problem.”

Examples of diagnose by meaning

verbTo determine the cause of a problem.

  • But in the early days of the scheme the new machines created some problems for the fitters, who found them over-complex and their faults hard to diagnose after many years' experience of small, simple steam locomotives.1962 October, M. J. Wilson, “Three years of dieselisation at Devons Road depot”, in Modern Railways, pages 262, 264
  • Mechanics use this extremely portable tool to diagnose engine faults, clear fault codes, and export data.2002, John J. Schiavone, Training for On-board Bus Electronics, page 19

More sentences with diagnose

  • We need to conduct an overnight sleep test to diagnose your sleep problem.From the entry sleep
  • Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years.From the entry than
  • The patient was diagnosed after displaying both aerophobia and acute hydrophobia.From the entry aerophobia
  • Any doctor worth their salt should be able to correctly diagnose the illness.From the entry worth one's salt
  • Diagnosing this software application's problems is a wild-goose chase because it is built in an environment that has poor debugging tools.From the entry wild-goose chase
  • If we can't figure out how to diagnose this problem remotely, we're going to have to go on site again.From the entry on site
  • Most of the pseudopatients were falsely diagnosed with mental disorders.From the entry pseudopatient
  • The patient was diagnosed with argininosuccinic aciduria.From the entry argininosuccinic
  • He was diagnosed with subcortical dementia.From the entry subcortical
  • A doctor might diagnose hodophobia based on self-assessments combined with in-office questionnaires.2020 July 13, Kristeen Cherney, “Managing Hodophobia, or the Fear of Traveling”, in Healthline, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023. From the entry hodophobia
  • You can diagnose yourself as having every dreadful disease on the planet with just one sniffle.2019, Rachel C. Swanson, Refine and Restore: Revive Your Heart, Release Your Purpose, New York, NY: FaithWords, →ISBN, page unknown. From the entry Googlitis
  • After nearly 17 years of sobriety, Zevon fell off the wagon hard when he was diagnosed.2018 September 8, Steven Hyden, “His Sh*t’s F***ed Up: The Complicated Legacy of Warren Zevon”, in The Ringer, retrieved 08 Sep 2018. From the entry fall off the wagon
  • But the blood tests used to diagnose lupus can confuse primary-care physicians, Karp says.2018 January 19, Sophia Dembling, “Living with a medical mystery: Why are autoimmune disorders so puzzling?”, in The Dallas Morning News. From the entry undiagnose
  • Lydiard was diagnosed shortly after new year following speech disturbance and subtle memory issues.2016 February 7, Caroline Davies, “Been anywhere nice this year? Brain surgery where patients are kept chatting”, in The Guardian. From the entry eloquent
  • The disease has a polysymptomatic onset and is usually first diagnosed between the ages of 20–40 years.2015 July 29, Svetlana F. Khaiboullina et al., “CCL27: Novel Cytokine with Potential Role in Pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis”, in…. From the entry polysymptomatic
  • 'I was diagnosed at about 19, so I was still very much learning the ropes,' he says.2014 October 8, Matt Huckle, “Is this Britain’s most inspirational fitness model?”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group…. From the entry learn the ropes
  • He was initially diagnosed with distal intestinal obstruction syndrome (DIOS) and started on laxatives and gastrograffin.2013 July 29, Mohammed Jawad et al., “Intestinal obstruction secondary to adhesions in an infant with cystic fibrosis”, in BMJ Case…. From the entry gastrograffin
  • Based on the ultrasound findings, the patient is diagnosed with twin boys.2012, Karen M. Schneider, Stephen K. Patrick, “Maternal–Fetal Physiology and Placentation”, in Obstetrics and Gynecology: PreTest™…. From the entry primigravida
  • 'Doogheno or dabheno?' he asked in a low voice, unable to diagnose it for himself.2012, Anthony Quinn, The Streets, →ISBN, page 196. From the entry doogheno
  • The disease is often diagnosed by its pathognomonic signs, but detection of anticoronaviral antibodies is possible.2012, David L. Williams, Ophthalmology of Exotic Pets, page 93. From the entry anticoronaviral
  • Now I’m not saying I was ever clinically diagnosed with ouranophobia.2011, Randal Rauser, The Confessions of an Ouranophobe, or How I got over my fear of heaven. From the entry ouranophobia
  • With my diagnosed mental illness I find it shocking that I should have had to endure this.2011, Giorgio Pin, An Interesting Life, page 75. From the entry do someone's head in
  • Once the cyst is diagnosed, surgical excision is the treatment of choice.2010 May, Estiel Meyer with Wakisal Mulwafu, Johannes Fagan, Robin Brown, and Kathryn Taylor, “Ectopic thymic tissue presenting as a neck…. From the entry of choice
  • Her symptoms were later diagnosed as postviral myositis, a muscular inflammation that can cause weakness and pain.2009 July 16, Kristina Peterson, “College Athletes Stuck With the Bill After Injuries”, in New York Times. From the entry postviral
  • In terms of hard-part morphology, goniatites are diagnosed by the simple to goniatitic form of their sutures.2006, Robert Wynn Jones, Applied Palaeontology, page 140. From the entry goniatitic
  • He is an experienced gunfitter and an expert on diagnosing eye dominance problems.2003, Peter F. Blakeley, Successful Shotgunning. From the entry gunfitter
  • I have only recently been diagnosed with PCO and had the routine tests, HSG, etc.. done.1997 April 21, Sheri Feldbusch, “Looking for a little guidance.”, in alt.support.pco (Usenet). From the entry re
  • A stereotype results, and blacks are more likely to be diagnosed and reported as abuse cases.1989, Howard Dubowitz, Eli Newberger, “Pediatrics and Child Abuse”, in Dante Cicchetti, Vicki Carlson, editors, Child Maltreatment: Theory…. From the entry Woozle effect
  • Approximately 20% of all dementiae can be reversed if they are correctly diagnosed and treated.1986, The Compendium of Continuing Education in Dentistry, page 508, column 1. From the entry dementiae
  • Currently, there are nine pediatric cases of AIDS diagnosed in Massachusetts, of whom three are attending school.1985 December 21, Sib Connor, “Brookline Okays Students With AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 23, page 2. From the entry pediatric
  • Now, faults can be diagnosed remotely and (in many cases) fixed before the train even reaches the depot.2025 July 23, Richard Wilcock, “A new dawn for the Electrostars”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 26. From the entry quip
  • Next, according to her medical charts, a women’s health specialist diagnosed her with “perimenopause” and prescribed testosterone cream.2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times. From the entry O-shot
  • Guan reported one new COVID-19 case but Sanhe did not say whether any of its residents were diagnosed with the disease.2021 January 12, Jing Wang, Andrew Galbraith, Se Young Lee, “Another Chinese city goes into lockdown amid new COVID-19 threat”, in Kim…. From the entry Sanhe
  • "I probably undiagnose as many people as I diagnose."2018 January 19, Sophia Dembling, “Living with a medical mystery: Why are autoimmune disorders so puzzling?”, in The Dallas Morning News. From the entry undiagnose
  • Acromegaly is usually not a difficult condition to diagnose once the possibility of this disease has been raised.2017, Dahlqvist P, Spencer R, Marques P, Dang MN, Glad CAM, Johannsson G, Korbonits M, “Pseudoacromegaly: a differential diagnostic…. From the entry acromegaloidism
  • Overdiagnosis refers to diagnosis that does not benefit patients because the diagnosed condition is not a harmful disease in those individuals.2016 August, Wendy A. Rogers, Yishai Mintzker, “Getting clearer on overdiagnosis”, in Journal of evaluation in clinical practice. From the entry overdiagnosis
  • The patient was diagnosed with AD, treated with phenserine and rivastigmine (cholinesterase inhibitors) and underwent 18 F-FDG PET.2015 July 2, Laetitia Lemoine et al., “Visualization of regional tau deposits using 3H-THK5117 in Alzheimer brain tissue”, in Acta…. From the entry phenserine
  • Sensorimotor polyneuropathy was diagnosed by electroneurography (ENG) with slightly reduced nerve conduction velocities and increased F wave latencies.2015 May 23, Tassilo Kruis et al., “A case series in patients with enteropathy and granulomatous diseases”, in BMC Gastroenterology…. From the entry electroneurography

Meaning of diagnose

  1. verb To determine which disease is causing a sick person's signs and symptoms; to find the diagnosis.
  2. verb To determine the cause of a problem.

Full definition of diagnose

Questions about diagnose in a sentence

How do you use diagnose in a sentence?
Diagnose is used as a verb. For example: “We need to conduct an overnight sleep test to diagnose your sleep problem.”
What is a short sentence with diagnose?
“He was diagnosed with subcortical dementia.”
What does diagnose mean?
Diagnose means to determine which disease is causing a sick person's signs and symptoms; to find the diagnosis.

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