misdiagnose
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of misdiagnose
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He said GPs can also misdiagnose the cancer as the yeast infection thrush, and it is not until weeks of treatment have passed that the patient is referred to hospital.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
“We have to be careful not to misdiagnose economic weakness,” Macklem said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
There are situations in which doctors can misdiagnose people with TB.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2024
Without proper context, the data could potentially be used to misdiagnose illnesses and turn people into hypochondriacs.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2022
That can cause software to misdiagnose a malfunction and disable the passenger air bag, increasing the risk of injury in a crash.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
“You don’t get misdiagnosed and all the sudden, I’m better,” Applegate said on the show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Her doctor had reevaluated her condition and leveraged new testing, revealing she had been misdiagnosed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
"You don't get misdiagnosed and then all of the sudden I'm better," Applegate said in an episode of her Messy podcast released on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
A 2017 study in North Carolina found more than 90% of alpha-gal cases were misdiagnosed, often as food poisoning, because doctors were unfamiliar with it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
On top of that, Cofield said, Henrietta’s doctors had misdiagnosed her cancer and might have killed her with an overdose of radiation.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
This often results in doctors misdiagnosing the disease or catching it much later in its progression, when tremors may already be apparent.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2022
Williams’ departure came after an ugly dispute with the team’s medical staff and former president Bruce Allen in which he blamed the team for misdiagnosing a cancerous growth on his head.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
By not having this knowledge for adults, we are causing unnecessary harm by misdiagnosing medical conditions.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
Caroline Schnakers was a neuropsychologist in Belgium when studies began appearing that showed doctors were misdiagnosing consciousness: People who were conscious were being diagnosed as being in a vegetative state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2019
In his 2015 autobiography Purple Revolution, he laid bare both his anger with the NHS for initially misdiagnosing his condition but also his gratitude for the ultimately successful treatment, which he says saved his life.
From BBC ● May 27, 2019
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