English

Noun
differential diagnosis

1. medicine: The process by which a physician produces a diagnosis that explains a patient's symptoms.
2. medicine: The part of this process concerned with determining, from a set of possible candidates, which disease is causing the symptoms.
3. medicine: A list of the common causes of a primary symptom.

#:The differential diagnosis for febrile patients with a rash is extensive.¹

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