overdiagnose
verbEtymology From over- + diagnose.
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Medicine, Sciences To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.
- Health experts deny claims that they overdiagnose mental health conditions.
- Dissociative identity disorder is a contentious diagnosis: some professionals say the disorder is overdiagnosed; others say it doesn't even exist.2009 January 11, Jeanne Dorin Mcdowell, “The Four (at Least) Faces of Tara”, in New York Times:
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Medicine, Sciences To diagnose as a clinical case what is truly a subclinical case.
- Her GP incorrectly referred her to a pulmonologist, overdiagnosing what was clearly a case of subclinical, mild allergy.
- Related terms
- overdiagnosis, underdiagnosis