differential diagnosis
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differential diagnosis n.
Determination of which one of two or more diseases with similar symptoms is the one from which the patient is suffering. Also called differentiation.
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| differential diagnosis | |
noun | |
| a systematic method of diagnosing a disorder (e.g., headache) that lacks unique symptoms or signs |
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Differential diagnosis
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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