(v. t. & i.) To ascertain by diagnosis; to diagnosticate. See Diagnosticate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sixteen patients in whom schizophrenia was initially diagnosed and who were treated with fluphenazine enanthate or decanoate developed severe depression for a short period after the injection.
(2) Cor triatriatum (CT) is a rare congenital defect, surgically correctable, and sometimes difficult to diagnose by cardiac catheterization.
(3) Measurement of urinary GGT levels represents a means by which proximal tubular disease in equidae could be diagnosed in its developmental stages.
(4) The first phase evaluated cytologic and colposcopic diagnoses in 962 consecutive patients in a community practice.
(5) In our experience DSA is a safe, specific means of following postoperative grafts and diagnosing their occlusion.
(6) In the present study, the expression of type IV collagen associated with the basal membrane (BM) was studied histochemically (indirect immunoperoxidase-antiperoxidase) in cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) lesions (diagnosed using in situ DNA hybridization) of different grades.
(7) Of the 16 cases, 14 (88%) were diagnosed as TSS or probable TSS by the attending physician, although only nine (64%) of the 14 diagnosed cases were given the correct discharge code.
(8) Three diagnoses or less per patient were not uncommon; more than three diagnoses per patient were uncommon.
(9) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
(10) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(11) The majority of these patients were older than 60 years and most had diagnoses of cardiovascular disease.
(12) The physicians did diagnose and treat a number of patients with mental symptoms who were not identified by the DIS.
(13) The fine needle aspiration cytology features of twelve peripherally located bronchioloalveolar cell carcinomas of the lung diagnosed by fine needle aspiration biopsy are described.
(14) About tow amyloid tumors diagnosed because of oropharyngeous signs, the authors remind the main symptoms at the upper airway and ENT tracts; the local, regional and general treatment will be discussed.
(15) Symptoms consistent with major affective disorder were present in one half and depressive spectrum diagnoses were made in one fourth of the cases prior to final diagnosis.
(16) A paraesophageal hernia may be life-threatening and requires surgical correction when diagnosed.
(17) This case was diagnosed as thyroid medullary carcinoma-like tumor of the lung, which is a bronchopulmonary carcinoid-related tumor.
(18) Transthoracic puncture for peripheral pulmonary lesions not diagnosed by fibroscopy were performed on 70 patients under computed tomographic (CT) control.
(19) Pure bile gave 32 correct diagnoses (67%) and 14 diagnoses of inadequate material (29%), which contained few nondegenerated cells and made microscopic diagnosis unreliable.
(20) Eaton-Lambert or myasthenic syndrome was diagnosed in a young woman with recurrent small-cell carcinoma of the cervix.
Psychiatry
Definition:
(n.) The application of the healing art to mental diseases.
Example Sentences:
(1) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
(2) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
(3) In the course of its history, psychiatry has grown richer parallel to the development of its spatiotemporal system of the reference.
(4) Harvey Whiteford, Kratzmann professor of psychiatry and population health at the University of Queensland, Australia, said depression was very common and was the second leading cause of health-related disability.
(5) Analysis of the literature data on the use of various therapeutic approaches to the treatment of febrile schizophrenia has shown that so far psychiatry does not possess such methods of treatment which could allow the complete prevention of lethal outcomes in this disease.
(6) However, opiate treatment is not a new therapeutic concept in psychiatry.
(7) It has given momentum to innovative tendencies in psychiatry.
(8) These outcomes are parameters of student performance on several standardized measures applied to all Psychiatry Clerkship students.
(9) Contemporary biological psychiatry is in a seemingly inchoate state.
(10) Although the clinical students compared to preclinical students attributed more positive personality traits to psychiatrists, students interested in taking up careers in psychiatry were few in both groups.
(11) Finally, the medico-legal aspects of psychiatry and the effects of the new birth-rate policy are briefly discussed.
(12) Two groups of patients treated in the Department of Neurotic Disorders of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology (Warsaw) were investigated 2 times during their course of psychotherapies (individual, group).
(13) The emergence of consultation psychiatry as an important psychiatric subspecialty is in part due to the siting of psychiatric units in general hospitals, the manifest advances in medical technology and the increasing elderly population needing specialist care.
(14) Closeness with hospital physicians can improve the image of psychiatry among physicians as well as the general population.
(15) Psychiatry is criticized for imprecise diagnosis, conceptual vagaries, jargon, therapeutic impotence and class bias.
(16) The author argues that the expertise available from the specialty is of increasing importance to psychiatry as a whole, as more and more legal issues become relevant to the practice of general psychiatry, and should be actively encouraged and legitimized rather than ostracized.
(17) While RT is regarded as a major treatment innovation in psychiatry, nonpsychiatrists are reluctant or unaware of the uses of antipsychotic medication as it pertains to RT.
(18) This paper describes a case with symptomless enlarged submandibular glands, the bioptic findings which were suggesting the diagnosis of sialadenosis, the verification of the underlying disorder by child psychiatry, and the recuperation of the boy during puberty.
(19) Kisker that appeared in the 'sixties of the present century are milestones along an important path of panoramic changes in the recent history of psychiatry.
(20) This concept is illustrated by the implementation of a computer-based diagnostic expert system for geriatric psychiatry.