Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being diagnosed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
diagnosed ; having acause which can bedetermined .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being diagnosed
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Examples
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Insanity is both a legal and a medical word, specifically referring to diagnosable illness; one can do wicked things and still be sane.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Their literature claims up to 50% of people had a "diagnosable" mental disorder during their life and the public should fund all of them.
DJ Jaffe: Psychiatry vs. Antipsychiatry: Call to action DJ Jaffe 2010
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Their literature claims up to 50% of people had a "diagnosable" mental disorder during their life and the public should fund all of them.
DJ Jaffe: Psychiatry vs. Antipsychiatry: Call to action DJ Jaffe 2010
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Instead of helping the 5% who are most seriously ill, they focus the bulk of their dollars on the 40% with a "diagnosable" mental illness which they define quite broadly.
DJ Jaffe: Maurice Clemmons: Mental Illness Does Cause Violence 2009
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Worldwide, about one in four in the United States adults has some kind of diagnosable mental disorder.
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Every kind of diagnosable neurosis runs wild on this four-minute mess.
Paste Magazine 2010
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Instead of helping the 5% who are most seriously ill, they focus the bulk of their dollars on the 40% with a "diagnosable" mental illness which they define quite broadly.
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Instead of helping the 5% who are most seriously ill, they focus the bulk of their dollars on the 40% with a "diagnosable" mental illness which they define quite broadly.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com DJ Jaffe 2009
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Instead of helping the 5% who are most seriously ill, they focus the bulk of their dollars on the 40% with a "diagnosable" mental illness which they define quite broadly.
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Sounds to me like the Big Dick should be under psychiatric evaluation, since 72 separate incidents of inability to remember, under FBI questioning, surely must constitute some kind of diagnosable dementia.
Progressive Bloggers 2009
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