Diagnosis
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A medical term, meaning the discovery of the source of a patient's illness or the determination, of the nature of his disease from a study of its symptoms. Said to be little more than a guess enlightened by experience.
Swan v. Railroad Co., 79 Hun, 612, 29 N. Y. Supp. 337.