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underrecognition

underrecognition noun: failure to recognise (e.g. a disease from its symptoms) often enough.

Noun

underrecognition (uncountable)

  1. Failure to recognise (e.g. a disease from its symptoms) often enough.
    • Time pressures reported by clinicians in providing comprehensive care for adolescents, 13, 14 complexities of classifying BP percentiles, and the need to review several previous BP measurements to diagnose HTN all clearly contribute to underrecognition.2015 July 9, Elyse O. Kharbanda et al., “TeenBP: Development and Piloting of an EHR-Linked Clinical Decision Support System to Improve Recognition of Hypertension in Adolescents”, in eGEMs, volume 3...

Origin of underrecognition

From under- + recognition.

Questions about underrecognition

What does underrecognition mean?
Underrecognition means failure to recognise (e.g. a disease from its symptoms) often enough.
What part of speech is underrecognition?
Underrecognition is a noun.

Words near underrecognition in the dictionary

  1. underreckons
  2. underrecognise
  3. underrecognised
  4. underrecognises
  5. underrecognising
  6. underrecognition
  7. underrecognize
  8. underrecognized
  9. underrecognizes
  10. underrecognizing
  11. underrecompensed

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