self-diagnosis

Meanings

nounself-diagnosis (countable and uncountable, plural self-diagnoses)

countableuncountableAn attempt to identify medical conditions in oneself.
For everyone else, a self-diagnosis of depression is error prone and may provide a seriously incomplete picture.
2021, Jonathan Rottenberg, Depression: What Everyone Needs to Know, page 25
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Redding’s study asked four psychologists with expertise in anxiety and depressive disorders to rate each self-help book on five criteria: how scientifically grounded the book is; whether there are guidelines for self-diagnosis, […]
2019 May 2, Nina Avramova, “When you should use self-help programs and when to skip them”, in CNN, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2025
countableuncountableThe ability of a system to identify problems within itself.
A self-diagnosis circuit that can be used for built-in self-repair is proposed.
2012, Issues in Computer Science and Theory: 2011 Edition, page 116

Greek αυτοδιάγνωση

Italian autodiagnosi

Polish samodiagnoza

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