diagnosticate
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Origin of diagnosticate
First recorded in 1840–50; diagnostic + -ate 1
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With these few sanguinary remarks we will now proceed to diagnosticate the exercises of the mornin' hour.
From Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales by Taylor, Robert L.
Diseases and injuries of the brain are notoriously difficult to diagnosticate.
From Origin and Nature of Emotions by Crile, George W. (Washington)
He then seated himself near his visitor and directly facing him, and with a searching look, that had all the power of a microscope, he proceeded to diagnosticate the case.
From The Ape, the Idiot & Other People by Morrow, W. C.
Therefore it is of vital importance, more so in the future, than it has been in the past, that practical physicians employ all possible means to diagnosticate phthisis in as early a stage as possible.
From Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated by Brendecke, Fr. (Friedrich)
Bronchitis and pneumonia are not infrequent, yet I have seen cases of laryngeal diphtheria recover in which I had suspected pneumonia before performing tracheotomy, and was enabled to diagnosticate it after operating.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
It is of course diagnosticated without difficulty from the sporadic catarrhal fevers, which lack the characteristic depression, neuralgic and rheumatoid pains, the irritative cough, dyspnoea, and so on.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The physician in charge of the case diagnosticated acute, diffuse peritonitis, the origin of which was not quite clear; very likely it was in the appendix.
From Appendicitis by Tilden, John Henry
It was not until long afterward that many of its characteristics, which had been interpreted as supernatural signs, were known and understood, and correctly diagnosticated as outward evidence of physical and nervous exhaustion.
From The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut by Greene, Maria Louise
Gratitude has been wisely diagnosticated as a lively sense of benefits to come.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
The few cases of intestinal diphtheria I have met with gave rise to the usual symptoms of enteritis, and were diagnosticated as such.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The matter is in some aspects as much a technical acquisition as in the diagnosticating of a disease.
From The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life by Hawthorne, Julian
During these months of eruptive secretion from the mouth diphtheria, therefore, is not very frequent; thus teething, in the case of diphtheria, cannot be held responsible by mothers fond of diagnosticating dental diseases.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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