overdiagnosed

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb simple past and past participle of overdiagnose
2. adjective Diagnosed more often than it truly occurs.
3. adjective Diagnosed as a clinical case despite truly being a subclinical, asymptomatic case.

Similar words

overdiagnostic overdiscussed exaggerated overrepresented overpositive overaccurate overexamined overinduced overhyped over-optimistic

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Word family

overdiagnose overdiagnoses overdiagnosing overdiagnosis