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provisional diagnosis

noun

B1CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

A working diagnosis stated before confirmatory results are available, often used in referral letters.

My provisional diagnosis is unstable angina, though I would value your opinion.

Similar: working diagnosis

Topic: OET letter-writing in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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