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Definition of Differential diagnosis
1. Noun. A systematic method of diagnosing a disorder (e.g., headache) that lacks unique symptoms or signs.
Definition of Differential diagnosis
1. Noun. (medicine) The process of determining which disease, from a set of possible candidates, is causing a patient's symptoms. ¹
2. Noun. (medicine) A list of the common causes of a primary symptom. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Differential diagnosis
1. The determination of which two or more diseases with similar symptoms is the one from which a patient is suffering from based on an analysis of the clinical data. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Differential Diagnosis
Literary usage of Differential diagnosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"Two questions we have put to ourselves to answer: (1) What is the criterion or
what are the criteria which help one in the differential diagnosis? ..."
2. Montaigne by Tetel, Marcel (1903)
"differential diagnosis. A practical paper describing some points in the differential
diagnosis of abdominal and pelvic tumors is offered by BB Hall.1 He ..."
3. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1897)
"THE differential diagnosis OF ... It is thus quite seldom that we are called upon
to make a differential diagnosis at tha stage of infiltration or tumor. ..."
4. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1921)
"THE differential diagnosis OF POLYURIA, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO DIABETES
INSIPIDUS LEONARD G. ROWNTREE POLYURIA is one of the three cardinal symptoms of ..."
5. The Surgical Clinics of North America by Stanley P. L. Leong (1922)
"LIPOMA OF THE POPLITEAL SPACE: differential diagnosis A COLORED man, ...
The differential diagnosis of enlargements in the popliteal space is not always an ..."
6. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(g) differential diagnosis of Acromegaly Acromegaly affects both the head and
the extremities, and n?ay he confused (1) with diseases that affect all these, ..."
7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"... Founded in 1874 articles REPORT OF SEVEN CASES OF BRAIN TUMOR (WITH AUTOPSIES)
WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO differential diagnosis* BY SP GOODHART, ..."
8. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1903)
"It would be a matter of supererogation for readers of this Journal to labour the
points of differential diagnosis between this condition and others, ..."
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