DIFFERENTIALDIAGNOSIS

Differential diagnosis

A differential diagnosis is a systematic diagnostic method used to identify the presence of an entity where multiple alternatives are possible, and may also refer to any of the included candidate alternatives . This method is essentially a process of elimination or at least of obtaining information that shrinks the "probabilities" of candidate conditions to negligible levels. The "probabilities" at issue are epistemic rather than ontological in that they are imaginative parameters in the mind of the diagnostician, while in reality the target either has a condition or not with an actual probability of either 0 or 100%.

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differential diagnosis

Noun

  1. The process of determining which disease, from a set of possible candidates, is causing a patient's symptoms.
  2. A list of the common causes of a primary symptom.


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