diagnosis

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Singular
diagnosis

Plural
diagnoses

  1. (countable) (medicine) A diagnosis is the naming of your disease, injury, or other problem, usually by a doctor.
    It took a long time, but she finally got a diagnosis of depression.
  2. (uncountable) (medicine) Diagnosis is the doctor's process of identifying an medical problem.
    The doctor's diagnosis was complicated by a number of other problems.

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