• IPA: /daɪəɡˈnəʊsɪs/

diagnosis

1. (medicine) The identification of the nature and cause of an illness.
2. The identification of the nature and cause of something (of any nature).

   • The quick eye for effects, the clear diagnosis of men's minds, and the love of epigram.

   • My diagnosis of his character proved correct.

3. (taxonomy) A written description of a species or other taxon serving to distinguish that species from all others. Especially, a description written in Latin and published.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page viii:

     The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification.

• diagnose
• diagnostic
• diagnostics

• French: diagnostic, diagnose
• German: Diagnose
• Italian: diagnosi
• Portuguese: diagnóstico
• Russian: диа́гноз
• Spanish: diagnóstico, diagnosis

• German: Diagnose
• Russian: диа́гноз

1. (nonstandard) Synonym of diagnose#English|diagnose
   • 2013, Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

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