self-diagnosis

English

Etymology

self- + diagnosis

Noun

self-diagnosis (countable and uncountable, plural self-diagnoses)

  1. An attempt to identify medical conditions in oneself.
    • 2021, Jonathan Rottenberg, Depression: What Everyone Needs to Know, page 25:
      For everyone else, a self-diagnosis of depression is error prone and may provide a seriously incomplete picture.
  2. The ability of a system to identify problems within itself.
    • 2012, Issues in Computer Science and Theory: 2011 Edition, page 116:
      A self-diagnosis circuit that can be used for built-in self-repair is proposed.

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