How to Use misdiagnose in a Sentence

misdiagnose

verb

• His issue dates back to a fracture in his ankle last season that was initially misdiagnosed as a sprain.
  — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2024
• Miller also pointed out that a check-up with a healthcare provider helps make sure that you haven’t been misdiagnosed with eczema.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 3 July 2024
• At the same time, provider bias can lead doctors to under-treat or misdiagnose their larger patients in all sorts of ways.
  — Virginia Sole-Smith, Good Housekeeping, 26 July 2021
• Both of these were probably also true at the time but OCD is often misdiagnosed, in as many as 50% of cases.
  — Shayne De Groot, refinery29.com, 21 May 2024
• On the lower end of the spectrum, only 1.5% of heart attacks are misdiagnosed, researchers found.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
• As a result, some cases of Raynaud’s may have been missed while others might have been misdiagnosed.
  — Barbara Mantel, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
• And researchers think that lack of guidance has led to about two-thirds of people with dementia being misdiagnosed.
  — Amy Isler, Rn, Msn, Csn, Verywell Health, 16 July 2024
• The Steeles argue that the embrace of this poetic truth has led us to misdiagnose the problems that led to Brown’s death and that continue to plague Ferguson.
  — Zaid Jilani, Washington Examiner, 5 Nov. 2020
• The lawsuit contends that Morris, who is Black, was misdiagnosed and mistreated because of his race.
  — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 11 June 2024
• Mono-mono twins are often misdiagnosed in the early weeks of pregnancy when the membrane is so thin as to be nearly invisible.
  — Pamela Prindle Fierro, Parents, 30 July 2024
• At specialized clinics, symptomatic Alzheimer’s is misdiagnosed between 25 and 35 percent of the time, according to the new study.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2024
• What This Means for You Severe liver disease can cause cognitive changes that look like dementia and may even be misdiagnosed as the condition.
  — Korin Miller, Verywell Health, 12 Feb. 2024
• As the condition can be misdiagnosed, Duchaine believes PMO may be more common than reported.
  — Bill Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2024
• Michels said visual snow is often misdiagnosed as either just migraines or just a visual problem.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 19 Mar. 2023
• Lupus can harm the skin, kidneys, heart, nervous system, blood cells, and more.6 While lupus is a common disease, it's also often misdiagnosed.
  — Anne Harding, Health, 19 Apr. 2023
• The slow progression, rarity, and nondescript early skin symptoms mean that some with the disease are misdiagnosed—sometimes for many years.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2023
• All of these solutions rest on a dogged determination to misdiagnose the problem.
  — Peter Greene, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• Perhaps you have been misdiagnosed, or your diet is worsening your symptoms.
  — Karen Pallarito, Health, 6 July 2023
• The lack of funding could be one reason these disorders are chronically under- or misdiagnosed.
  — Jennifer Brookland, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2024
• When her friends raised concerns, Zuniga saw a doctor who misdiagnosed her with depression.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 21 Aug. 2023
• And kids who were adopted out of foster care even at a very young age can exhibit behavioral issues that are often misdiagnosed and misunderstood.
  — Jennifer Brookland, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2024
• For those who don’t even know a tick bit them, doctors either misdiagnose these clusters of chronic symptoms or dismiss the patient as psychosomatic.
  — Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 22 June 2022
• Some of the veterans KARE 11 spoke with said they were misdiagnosed following brief screenings that did not sufficiently assess brain injuries.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 12 May 2023
• In lighter skin, the disease manifests as red spots, so doctors who aren’t familiar with how mycosis fungoides appear on dark skin can misdiagnose the condition.
  — Shivani Majmudar, SELF, 25 Mar. 2022
• In 2016, Maya was misdiagnosed with symptoms caused by Munchausen's syndrome by proxy, (a condition where a caretaker produces a false history of illness).
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 22 June 2023
• More liberal economists argued that Summers misdiagnosed the cause of higher inflation, and therefore missed the cure.
  — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
• There are situations in which doctors can misdiagnose people with TB.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
• More adult women like Dr. Onaiwu are being diagnosed as well, raising questions about how many young girls continue to be missed or misdiagnosed.
  — Azeen Ghorayshi, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• Many of these conditions are not fully understood and misdiagnosed.
  — Sunny Sea Gold, Health, 29 June 2024
• Volman also experienced tremors; LBD, as it’s called, shares some symptoms with Parkinson’s, which the condition is sometimes misdiagnosed as.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2023

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024