differential diagnosis

English

Noun

differential diagnosis (countable and uncountable, plural differential diagnoses)

1. (medicine) The process of determining which disease, from a set of possible candidates, is causing a patient's symptoms.
2. (medicine) A list of possible causes of a primary symptom or a collection of symptoms.
   • 2000 August 15, Harry D. McKinnon and Thomas Howard, “Evaluating the Febrile Patient with a Rash”, in American Family Physician, American Academy of Family Physicians, page 804,

     The differential diagnosis for febrile patients with a rash is extensive.

Translations

process of diagnosis from a set of candidates

• Chinese:

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• Czech: diferenciální diagnóza f
• Dutch: differentiële diagnose f, differentiaaldiagnose (nl) f
• Finnish: erotusdiagnostiikka
• Hungarian: differenciáldiagnózis

list of possible causes

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: differentiële diagnose f
• Finnish: erotusdiagnoosi
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: diagnosis banding, diagnosis diferensial, diagnosis pembanding (id)

See also

• nonspecific
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