Retrodiagnose

Quick meaning: Retrodiagnose is a verb meaning To retroactively diagnose a dead person with a medical or psychological condition.

Meaning

To retroactively diagnose a dead person with a medical or psychological condition.

Example Sentences

At the outset of his article on Cavendish, however, Sacks stated firmly that he was not just jumping on the bandwagon of retrodiagnosing famous geeks from history with a trendy disorder.

It's still really important in medicine, of course, but now you can do anthropology with genetics, or retrodiagnose famous historical figures, or even do genetics-based origami and computing.

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?— […]

Word Forms

• retrodiagnoses
• retrodiagnosing
• retrodiagnosed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rediagnose, retrocalculate, retrohome, retrodeform, retrotranspose, retrograde.

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