| Definitions | | differential diagnosis |
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noun
- (medicine): The process by which a physician produces a diagnosis that explains a patient's symptoms.
- (medicine): The part of this process concerned with determining, from a set of possible candidates, which disease is causing the symptoms.
- (medicine): A list of the common causes of a primary symptom.
- The differential diagnosis for febrile patients with a rash is extensive.http://www.aafp.org/afp/20000815/804.html
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