retrodiagnose

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To retroactively diagnose a dead person with a medical or psychological condition.
    — Rather than retrodiagnosing colonial patients through glimpses and gaps in their stories—was this one a paranoid schizophrenic? did that one suffer major depressive psychosis? was a third borderline?— […]

词形变化

retrodiagnoses present,singular,third-person retrodiagnosing participle,present retrodiagnosed participle,past retrodiagnosed past

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Proto-Italic *wretrō
Latin retrōder.
English retro-
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δια- (dia-)
Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱétider.
Proto-Hellenic *gignṓskō
Ancient Greek γῐγνώσκω (gĭgnṓskō)
Ancient Greek δῐαγῐγνώσκω (dĭagĭgnṓskō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́γνωσῐς (dĭắgnōsĭs)der.
Latin diagnōsisder.
English diagnosisbf.
English diagnose
English retrodiagnose
From retro- + diagnose.
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