Usually means: Incorrectly identifying a medical condition.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word misdiagnose:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. misdiagnose: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. misdiagnose: Merriam-Webster
  3. misdiagnose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. misdiagnose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. misdiagnose: Collins English Dictionary
  6. misdiagnose: Wordnik
  7. misdiagnose: Wiktionary
  8. misdiagnose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. misdiagnose: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. misdiagnose: Dictionary.com
  11. misdiagnose: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. misdiagnose: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. misdiagnose: Medical dictionary

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▸ verb:  (transitive, pathology) To incorrectly diagnose.

Similar:
overdiagnose, underdiagnose, misdoctor, misfigure, misdiagram, misjudge, mislabel, mistype, misstage, misdetect, more...

Opposite:
diagnose correctly, diagnose accurately, diagnose precisely

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Similar:
overdiagnose, underdiagnose, misdoctor, misfigure, misdiagram, misjudge, mislabel, mistype, misstage, misdetect, more...

Opposite:
diagnose correctly, diagnose accurately, diagnose precisely



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