English

Verb

underdiagnose ‎(third-person singular simple present underdiagnoses, present participle underdiagnosing, simple past and past participle underdiagnosed)

1. (medicine) To diagnose something less often than it actually occurs.
   • 2015 July 3, David Ben Kumah et al., “Prevalence of allergic conjunctivitis among basic school children in the Kumasi Metropolis (Ghana): a community-based cross-sectional study”, in BMC Ophthalmology, volume 15, DOI:10.1186/s12886-015-0053-8:

     Meanwhile, literature supports the possibility of underdiagnosing AC in the hospital setting; exponentially so when males generally have poor hospital-attending behavior.