misdiagnosis

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ diagnosis.

Noun

misdiagnosis (countable and uncountable, plural misdiagnoses)

1. (medicine, pathology) An incorrect diagnosis.
   • 2015 July 23, “Transcriptome Profiling of Peripheral Blood in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Reveals Functional Pathways Related to Psychosis and Autism Spectrum Disorder”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Some researchers have proposed that early social dysfunction in 22q11DS is associated with premorbidity to schizophrenia, and that these social impairments may result in a misdiagnosis of an ASD.

   • 2024 October 4, Lynsey Addario, “‘Mom, I Want to Live’: A Young Girl Battles War and Cancer”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     They have suffered from misdiagnoses, lapses in treatment, a lack of access to specialized food and physical therapy, displacement and the unrelenting stress of war.

Related terms

• misdiagnose

Translations

An incorrect diagnosis

• German: Fehldiagnose (de) f
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 誤診 (ja) (ごしん, goshin)