retrodiagnose

English

Etymology

retro- +‎ diagnose

Verb

retrodiagnose (third-person singular simple present retrodiagnoses, present participle retrodiagnosing, simple past and past participle retrodiagnosed)

To retroactively diagnose a dead person with a medical or psychological condition.
- 2007, Richard C. Keller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa, The University of Chicago Press (2007), →ISBN, page 85:
  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?— […]
- 2012, Sam Kean, The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code, Little, Brown and Company (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
  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.
- 2015, Steve Silberman, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, Avery (2015), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
  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.

单词	retrodiagnose
释义	retrodiagnose English Etymology retro- +‎ diagnose Verb retrodiagnose (third-person singular simple present retrodiagnoses, present participle retrodiagnosing, simple past and past participle retrodiagnosed) To retroactively diagnose a dead person with a medical or psychological condition. 2007, Richard C. Keller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa, The University of Chicago Press (2007), →ISBN, page 85: 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?— […] 2012, Sam Kean, The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code, Little, Brown and Company (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page: 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. 2015, Steve Silberman, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, Avery (2015), →ISBN, unnumbered page: 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.
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