underdiagnosing

Verb

underdiagnose (third-person singular simple present underdiagnoses, present participle underdiagnosing, simple past and past participle underdiagnosed)

1. To diagnose something less often than it actually occurs.
   • Meanwhile, literature supports the possibility of underdiagnosing AC in the hospital setting; exponentially so when males generally have poor hospital-attending behavior.2015 July 3, David Ben Kumah et al., “Prevalence of allergic conjunctivitis among basic school children in the Kumasi Metropolis (Ghana): a community-based cross-sectional study”, in BMC...

   Antonyms:

   overdiagnose