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  • Beatty knocked his pipe into the palm of his pink hand, studied the ashes as if they were a symbol to be diagnosed and searched for meaning.   (source)
    diagnosed = analyzed and figured out
  • Henrietta's tumor had been incorrectly diagnosed.   (source)
    diagnosed = identified (determined)
  • Easy job he's got, diagnosis by phone.   (source)
    diagnosis = the identification of the cause of an illness
  • Lisa Cody didn't have a diagnosis yet.   (source)
    diagnosis = determination of the cause of her illness
  • Mr. Bykovski's daughter, Esther, had been in my class until she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and had to go away to a special school.   (source)
    diagnosed = found to suffer from
  • She knew that my cancer diagnosis was grim.   (source)
    diagnosis = identification (as in identifying an illness)
  • The diagnosis was paranoid schizophrenia, and his life, as he had lived it until then, was over.   (source)
    diagnosis = the name of a disease that was determined to be the cause of an illness
  • Without a diagnosis, they couldn't treat our son.   (source)
    diagnosis = determination of the nature of a problem or an illness
  • kids aren't allowed to use the public telephone at Franklin High unless they get a special pass. And even then it's got to be to call your mother to say that the school nurse has just diagnosed leprosy or something.   (source)
    diagnosed = determined that someone has a particular illness
  • Based on ... were you able to diagnose Peter's state of mind on March 6, 2007, with a reasonable degree of medical certainty?   (source)
    diagnose = determine (the nature of a problem or an illness)
  • I realize you haven't had adequate time to arrive at a proper diagnosis of the patient, but you have had a chance at observing him in action.   (source)
    diagnosis = identification of the illness
  • I was diagnosed with ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease.   (source)
    diagnosed = found to have an illness
  • I have been diagnosed with a fatal illness and would love to undergo the same procedure as you.   (source)
    diagnosed = found to have (a specific illness)
  • In one study of former Pacific POWs, more than a quarter had been diagnosed with alcoholism.†   (source)
  • "Pyramidal tract involvement," Denton Deere whispered, trying to impress Angela with his diagnosis.†   (source)
  • She is always diagnosing me.†   (source)
  • Edgar's mother had taken one of the older dogs to see Doctor Papineau that week and he had diagnosed hypothyroid.†   (source)
  • It was an easy diagnosis.†   (source)
  • Similarly, Mamaw's occasional references to Mom "getting loaded" seemed like random comments of a woman known for her willingness to say anything, not a diagnosis of a deteriorating reality.†   (source)
  • But a person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart!†   (source)
  • As they climbed it, the various Healers called out to them, diagnosing odd complaints and suggesting horrible remedies.†   (source)
  • Mr. Traynor suffered a spinal injury in g road accident in 2007 and had been diagnosed C5-6 quadriplegic with very limited movement in one arm only, requiring twenty-four-hour care.†   (source)
  • Diagnosed with dyslexia.†   (source)
  • After the cancer diagnosis, she had stayed up for days.†   (source)
  • Diagnosis†   (source)
  • She looks surprised, but straightens (with a small grimace, which reinforces my diagnosis of lower back pain) and reads: I. My parents have no relatives who are appropriate to accept legal responsibility for me.†   (source)
  • Doctors and officials, not knowing how to cure the disease, decided to force all those diagnosed with it to a remote section of the island of Molokai.†   (source)
  • The word had refinement, and the weight of medical diagnosis.†   (source)
  • I have learned that one of his therapists diagnosed him with ADD (attention deficit disorder).†   (source)
  • "I don't see anything cute about it," my mother said when she heard my shiny new diagnosis.†   (source)
  • John's diagnosis was an acute congestion of the stomach.†   (source)
  • He was forty-two years old and in excellent health, with the exception of a bout of bronchitis that had been diagnosed ten days before.†   (source)
  • "But the day after their engagement, she's diagnosed with leukemia."†   (source)
  • "I would be lying," Dr. Erland continued, "if I said that I had not harbored secret hopes of finding an antidote in time to save His Majesty, though I knew from the moment the diagnosis was made that it was unlikely.†   (source)
  • I know, I know," I said, at her startled (and slightly alarmed) look—"every time I see Barbara she tells me I need to chant Um or Rum or whatever to heal, like, the blocked chakras—'deficient muladhara' — I'm not kidding you, that was her diagnosis of me, 'unrooted ….'†   (source)
  • The Sherpas, however, had a different diagnosis: they believed that one of the climbers on Fischer's team had angered Everest-Sagarmatha, goddess of the sky-and the deity had taken her revenge on Ngawang.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hyde told the inquest that her mother-in-law, Mrs. Marijke Hyde, currently in a nursing home, had been diagnosed as suffering from a degenerative mental illness and that Mr. Hyde had "coped very badly" with the situation.†   (source)
  • Where's the diagnosis?†   (source)
  • Well, I guess she's going to have change her diagnosis: I am not unassertive.†   (source)
  • But I am fairly confident of my diagnosis.†   (source)
  • There wasn't any clear-cut diagnosis, no hard-and-fast rules, and there was no way I'd ever know for certain.†   (source)
  • After her heart disease was diagnosed, my physician brothers wanted to schedule her for further tests with top heart specialists, but she refused.†   (source)
  • After our complicated birth, physicians in Atlanta pronounced many diagnoses on my asymmetrical brain, including Wernicke's and Broca's aphasia, and sent my parents home over the icy roads on Christmas Eve with one-half a set of perfect twins and the prediction that I might possibly someday learn to read but would never speak a word.†   (source)
  • Ruth puzzled over the diagnosis: How could such a beautiful-sounding word apply to such a destructive disease?†   (source)
  • The diagnosis was simple: a broken fibula.†   (source)
  • Several hours later she called again: A doctor had come and diagnosed pneumonia.†   (source)
  • Good mechanics, the kind who used to fix cars before computerized diagnostics, use pattern recognition to diagnose engine troubles: if this and this are happening, then check that.†   (source)
  • The diagnosis had come down only two years earlier, though the symptoms had been visible years before that.†   (source)
  • "I hope," he said in a low voice, "that I am doing you a favor with this diagnosis."†   (source)
  • Any diagnosis?†   (source)
  • Most of these cases are never reported to authorities or properly diagnosed.†   (source)
  • And last, one of the voice mails is from his chief, Joan Schaeffer, who tells him that a patient he had diagnosed with pneumonia just before his trip to Kabul turned out to have congestive heart failure instead.†   (source)
  • What kind of condition might we expect to have diagnosed in a facility called Autumn Harvest Farms?†   (source)
  • Not even a terminal diagnosis of aggressive throat cancer had knocked her from her perch.†   (source)
  • It is true, these same trivial errors did cause me some anxiety at first, but once I had had time to diagnose them correctly as symptoms of nothing more than a straightforward staff shortage, I have refrained from giving them much thought.†   (source)
  • The doctor called by Helena Lewicka diagnosed acute inflammation of the gall bladder and recommended a strict diet.†   (source)
  • I might have been diagnosed with a terminal illness.†   (source)
  • If you run too far, you might be a masochist, an anorexic, or another type, and you will have to see an Official of Psychology for diagnosis.†   (source)
  • In two months I could distill liquor until it was too strong to drink, bandage a wound, set a bone, and diagnose hundreds of sicknesses from symptoms.†   (source)
  • The diagnosis was an intestinal infection of alimentary origin, which was cured by three days of treatment at home.†   (source)
  • Is it defeatist or treacherous for a doctor to diagnose a disease correctly?†   (source)
  • If the diagnosis was correct, Reilley knew time was short.†   (source)
  • This spring they diagnosed it as the beginning symptoms of mental illness.†   (source)
  • The doctors diagnosed reflux and referred us to a specialist, who sedated our baby boy and snaked a scope down his throat to scrutinize his insides.†   (source)
  • I thought he was going to tell me his diagnosis, and that perhaps I had judged him too hastily and too unkindly.†   (source)
  • She had to buy medicines because ("Don't tell Mama") she had been diagnosed with tuberculosis.†   (source)
  • The tools for uncovering tuberculosis belong to an older era in medicine, and the diagnosis can be tricky, especially in someone with HIV.†   (source)
  • This had consequently become associated with the great difficulty of even diagnosing her mental deficiencies.†   (source)
  • But now she had it all diagnosed, deduced, clear.†   (source)
  • More extensive evaluation would be necessary to make an exact psychiatric diagnosis, but his present personality structure is very nearly that of a paranoid schizophrenic reaction.†   (source)
  • Dad was battling what had been diagnosed as terminal colon cancer.†   (source)
  • He was ill with some type of lung disease, but it was not diagnosed, as my father had never visited a doctor.†   (source)
  • Hallucinations, I hear Pop in my head, making a diagnosis.†   (source)
  • Unable to diagnose himself, in severe pain, and unable to continue with his work, he presented himself to Dr. Antonia Bagshawe, a physician at Nairobi Hospital.†   (source)
  • She had diagnosed the problem: the younger boys were trying to show off.†   (source)
  • He was known to be a very good doctor, with a talent for diagnosis and a reputation for skillful work.†   (source)
  • And then later that day he went to the doctor and they diagnosed him with pancreatic cancer.†   (source)
  • Finally, I was diagnosed as having a rare kidney disease which was incurable.†   (source)
  • In rural Cambodia, an HIV diagnosis felt like a death sentence, and Neth didn't think she had long to live.†   (source)
  • Felipe was diagnosed with schizophrenia at about age eleven, and takes multiple medications for it.†   (source)
  • But a few more mining accidents and a few more cancer diagnoses because of all the pollution, and he might get ridden out of here on a rail.†   (source)
  • Before heading home, Adam had told his teammates that he was more frightened of Kelley's response than he was of the doctor's diagnosis.†   (source)
  • Sophie was diagnosed as profoundly deaf.†   (source)
  • By eight, she began suffering frequent seizures and was diagnosed as an epileptic.†   (source)
  • Alex was diagnosed with pronounced autism.†   (source)
  • With the help of your x-ray vision, maybe you can definitively diagnose—†   (source)
  • I knew it was the stress of the diagnosis that caused it.†   (source)
  • Today a battle-scarred Ira Hayes would be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress syndrome, and there would be understanding and treatment available to him.†   (source)
  • I WAS SIX WHEN MY FATHER WAS DIAGNOSED WITH PANCREATIC CANCER That year my mother and I were driving together in the car.†   (source)
  • Diagnosis or possibility?†   (source)
  • These words of Father Restrepo were etched in the family memory with all the gravity of a diagnosis, and in the years to come they had more than one occasion to recall them.†   (source)
  • A colonel with a large forehead and horn-rimmed glasses soon arrived at a diagnosis.†   (source)
  • I waited to hear the diagnosis for the mental illness Mrs. Lincoln thought Lena suffered from—the state of being different.†   (source)
  • The casual and wealthy Phillip Arden, who lately has been getting "come hither" e-mails from girls who've met him around campus, greeted his father-who flew in on his Lear jet-with an unwelcomed development; mononucleosis, just diagnosed.†   (source)
  • "Well, Osborn"—Dr. Raspton chose a young resident who looked stunned at being singled out—"give us your diagnosis."†   (source)
  • And if the crowd does express its disapproval, it merely goads him on to bigger and better things, much in the way Tomas was spurred on by the difficulty of a diagnosis.†   (source)
  • He had expected the word, the diagnosis, would make her feel better, but instead it seemed to fill her eyes with fresh tears.†   (source)
  • He examines them, tests them, diagnoses them, even treats them.†   (source)
  • After he sold out, and after he was diagnosed with lung cancer, he consolidated his records and spent more time at Berring.†   (source)
  • Norberto looked down and cried when Cesar translated this diagnosis.†   (source)
  • Understand, MPD is anything but a precise diagnosis, and I can understand the temptation to pin it on Ryan—it would answer plenty of questions.†   (source)
  • Any diagnosis I could make would be of the most basic sort.†   (source)
  • "Your diagnosis is exactly that of my specialist," Mr. Norton said, "and I went to several fine physicians before one could diagnose it.†   (source)
  • The strange behavior—the so-called "madness" of King George III—for which he would be long remembered, did not come until much later, more than twenty years later, and rather than mental illness, it appears to have been porphyria, a hereditary disease not diagnosed until the twentieth century.†   (source)
  • I merely noted a symptom, I did not make a diagnosis.†   (source)
  • Anyway, it was only after we ran all the tests that our diagnosis was confirmed.†   (source)
  • With the help of some microbrigade friends in the capital, Celia tracks down the santera from east Havana who had diagnosed her in 1934, when she was dying of love for the Spaniard.†   (source)
  • The diagnosis was rheumatoid arthritis.†   (source)
  • We Seekers prefer a different sort of diagnosis.†   (source)
  • He was diagnosed two and a half years ago.†   (source)
  • I expected it to resolve itself and heal within moments of being diagnosed and beginning the required course of treatment.†   (source)
  • Nobody took Rumfoord's diagnosis seriously.†   (source)
  • His father had been patient with the old man, listening sympathetically, nodding, stroking his cheek as if he were preparing a diagnosis.†   (source)
  • Roberts offers a quick diagnosis and hangs up after a few minutes, thinking to himself that Marilyn is once again up to no good.†   (source)
  • He was looking from one of the Silent Brothers to the other with a curious listlessness, like someone who had received countless terminal diagnoses from different doctors and now, having reached the end of the line, waited without much hope for a specialist's verdict.†   (source)
  • The doctor arrives and makes his diagnosis: chicken pox.†   (source)
  • I saw her alive only a few times, the last time just before the diagnosis, when she dropped off his lunch in a brown bag and kissed him twice on top of his wiry-haired salt-and-pepper head.†   (source)
  • Severe Depressive Episodes: High Risk of Suicide was the initial diagnosis on the commitment papers he signed last January.†   (source)
  • Has one of you been diagnosed with some terminal disease?†   (source)
  • Not a diagnosis.†   (source)
  • The book says that about 30 percent of people who have AIDS are diagnosed in their twenties, WOW! that means most were infected in their teens.†   (source)
  • I'd never placed a lot of faith in psychiatry before I met Tom, but his uncanny ability to diagnose personality disorders and psychotic illnesses made a believer of me.†   (source)
  • Granny was diagnosed as manic-depressive and was twice confined to the Louisiana mental institute at Pineville, where she received electric-shock therapy, a treatment in vogue at the time.†   (source)
  • "I don't believe that you have any of the disorders those doctors diagnosed you with, Sofia," she said.†   (source)
  • Granny had suffered a nervous breakdown and was diagnosed with manic depression.†   (source)
  • And the way they trained in diagnostics was simple: You diagnosed for up to thirty-six hours at a time.†   (source)
  • At the time Theresa had not dared to; and though. later she'd learned to talk professionally — to present cases past differential diagnoses and treatment plans, she managed nothing.†   (source)
  • So with Eddie and Doc and Oscar Johnson, he spent time diagramming new plays, figuring strategy, diagnosing weaknesses and devising ways to correct them.†   (source)
  • You get a lot more clues in actual diagnosis.†   (source)
  • GUIL: Thwarted ambition-a sense of grievance, that's my diagnosis.†   (source)
  • He diagnosed this negative intelligence as more ominous than almost anything that could have happened, and determined to awaken General Hawker if it persisted.†   (source)
  • And although it was Nathan's own keen if nonprofessional diagnosis which so accurately pegged the nature of Sophie's malady very soon after their encounter at the Brooklyn College library, his brother was instrumental in helping to find a cure for that problem too.†   (source)
  • I'd like a little closer diagnosis.†   (source)
  • … And speaking of medicine, how fine if the computer and medical people diagnosing you for anything had instant access to all your past medical history!†   (source)
  • The doctors diagnosed a hopeless senility.†   (source)
  • You want my diagnosis?†   (source)
  • The cause of death had been an attack of suffocation resulting from acute edema of the lungs; this had not been diagnosed in time.†   (source)
  • He then takes from his pocket a pair o f spectacles and from the basket a book) COMMON MAN (Reading) "Whether we follow tradition in ascribing Wolsey's death to a broken heart, or accept Professor Larcomb's less feeling diagnosis of pulmonary pneumonia, its effective cause was the King's displeasure.†   (source)
  • "Complete nervous breakdown," diagnosed Tony, who was just off to bed.†   (source)
  • But youth had gained the upper hand; and, as frequently happens, in spite of prognostications and diagnoses, nature had amused herself by saving the sick man under the physician's very nose.   (source)
    diagnoses = identification of the cause of an illness
  • Not that either of us could diagnose her without seeing her, but I suspect she'll be home soon."†   (source)
  • Most of us are diagnosed with attention deficit disorder or dyslexia, or both—".†   (source)
  • "I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.†   (source)
  • His dad has been diagnosed with the Flare, is already showing signs of it.†   (source)
  • The diagnosis is "confidential," but we all assumed his ulcers were acting up.†   (source)
  • We dicked around waiting for a diagnosis.†   (source)
  • She knows she made a mistake and that it wasn't her place to diagnose your father.†   (source)
  • Old Shinny had been clearly puzzled as well, but in the end he had concurred with the diagnosis.†   (source)
  • A brain biopsy enabled them to reach a further confirmation of the diagnosis.†   (source)
  • There won't be any diagnosis," she says.†   (source)
  • It was quick, and she was pretty active until the diagnosis.†   (source)
  • She heaped sugar into the tea, having diagnosed herself as suffering from hypoglycemia.†   (source)
  • Many disorders, judging by the hospital population, were more commonly diagnosed in women.†   (source)
  • Without the CT scan, they couldn't diagnose.†   (source)
  • She was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with Parkinson's and low-grade dementia.†   (source)
  • But then the MS diagnosis arrived and most of that was gone.†   (source)
  • I'm curious to know her every thought, her diagnosis, her prognosis, her prescription.†   (source)
  • At the time, I already had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but I was optimistic.†   (source)
  • Her tumor was invasive, but not an epidermoid carcinoma as originally diagnosed.†   (source)
  • But at least she finally believes the diagnosis is real and that ginseng tea isn't a cure-all.†   (source)
  • November 2002—Todd feels a lump in his chest that is diagnosed as hyperplasia.†   (source)
  • On Valentine's Day, my sister Rose had been diagnosed with breast cancer.†   (source)
  • Jai I'VE ASKED Jai what she has learned since my diagnosis.†   (source)
  • She tried to figure a way to translate the diagnosis into a condition her mother would accept.†   (source)
  • At one point I taught physical diagnosis to first— and second-year students.†   (source)
  • A diagnosis that would take a few hours in Boston can take weeks when made between Haiti and Boston.†   (source)
  • "It's okay," Mae said, though she didn't know how she felt about the woman's diagnosis.†   (source)
  • As I trailed my fingers along the racks I forgot about the diagnosis for minutes on end.†   (source)
  • Dr. Billford, shaken to within an inch of sanity himself, diagnosed catalepsy.†   (source)
  • He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and calmed with heavy doses of Thorazine.†   (source)
  • "They diagnosed my sister with idiocy?" she said, then started reading the definition out loud.†   (source)
  • When she'd been with us a month or so, Lisa Cody got a diagnosis.†   (source)
  • "Coronary thrombosis," the intern diagnosed, "but that's just an educated guess.†   (source)
  • On our trips, he often attacked my character—that character once diagnosed as disordered.†   (source)
  • Jones cut a small sample and sent it to the pathology lab down the hall for a diagnosis.†   (source)
  • Farmer is called in and at once corrects the house staff's diagnosis.†   (source)
  • I know that so far, I've been handling my diagnosis pretty well.†   (source)
  • "Nasal drip," Denton Deere whispered, confiding the latest diagnosis to his partner.†   (source)
  • I don't believe this diagnosis, Alzheimer's.†   (source)
  • Making a diagnosis isn't as important as making a connection, Ragins says.†   (source)
  • The doctor in Imperial had diagnosed him with stomach flu.†   (source)
  • He finally made the diagnosis on the morning of his last day of Brigham service.†   (source)
  • But a diagnosis isn't of much interest to Ragins.†   (source)
  • After Shatner learned of my diagnosis, he sent me a photo of himself as Kirk.†   (source)
  • "The man was insane," Denton Deere diagnosed.†   (source)
  • The disorder is more commonly diagnosed in women.†   (source)
  • "We didn't even have a diagnosis a month ago," said Carole.†   (source)
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