diagnosis of exclusion

collocation in English

meaningsofdiagnosisandexclusion

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diagnosis
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌdaɪ.əɡˈnəʊ.sɪs/us
/ˌdaɪ.əɡˈnoʊ.sɪs/
a judgment about what a particular illness or problem is, made after ...
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exclusion
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪkˈskluː.ʒən/us
/ɪkˈskluː.ʒən/
the act of not allowing someone or something to take part in an activity or to enter ...
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(Definition ofdiagnosisandexclusionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Conversion disorder is largely adiagnosisofexclusion: deriving from the absence of observable pathology.
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This is strictly adiagnosisofexclusion, especially in the elderly.
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It is adiagnosisofexclusion.
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Leukoplakia and is a descriptive clinical term that is only correctly used once all other possible causes have been ruled out (adiagnosisofexclusion).
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Leukoplakia is adiagnosisofexclusion, meaning that what lesions are included depends upon what diagnoses are currently considered acceptable.
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Bilious vomiting syndrome is adiagnosisofexclusion, meaning that the dog is normal otherwise and no other causes of the vomiting have been found.
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Myelodysplasia is adiagnosisofexclusionand must be made after proper determination of iron stores, vitamin deficiencies, and nutrient deficiencies are ruled out.
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Since septic pelvic thrombophlebitis is adiagnosisofexclusion, other causes of postpartum fever must be considered, such as endometritis, endomyometritis, mastitis, and physiologic breast engorgement.
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For the patient, this diagnostic process is often tedious, expensive and time-consuming, as other than the sleep studies, it is still basically adiagnosisofexclusion.
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Psychosis (as a sign of a psychiatric disorder) is adiagnosisofexclusion.
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They are however adiagnosisofexclusion.
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Transient synovitis is adiagnosisofexclusion.
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