Diagnosis
<B>1</B> The nature of a disease; the identification of an illness.
<B>2</B> A conclusion or decision reached by diagnosis.
The diagnosis is rabies.
<B>3</B> The identification of any problem.
The diagnosis was a plugged IV.</P> The word diagnosis comes directly from the Greek, but the meaning has been changed.
To the Greeks a diagnosis meant specifically a 'discrimination, a distinguishing, or a discerning between two possibilities.' Today, in medicine that corresponds more closely to a differential diagnosis.