确诊

• Pinyin: què zhěn
• Hanzi breakdown: 确 = 石 + 角 (solid certainty); 诊 = 言 + 㐱 (spoken assessment — a verbal/clinical examination)

Meaning

To make a confirmed diagnosis; to definitively identify a disease or medical condition after examination or testing.

确诊病例 (confirmed case) became widely used in public health reporting during epidemic outbreaks. The standard construction is 确诊为 X (confirmed to have X) or 被确诊患有 X (diagnosed with X). Implies a final, authoritative medical conclusion.

Examples

1. 经过一系列专项检查，患者最终被确诊为早期胃癌，主治医生随即制定了详细的治疗方案。 After a series of specialized tests, the patient was ultimately diagnosed with early-stage stomach cancer, and the attending physician promptly drew up a detailed treatment plan.
2. 疫情暴发初期，每日新增确诊病例的数字牵动着全国亿万民众的心。 In the early days of the outbreak, the number of newly confirmed cases each day weighed heavily on the hearts of hundreds of millions across the country.
3. 他在例行体检中发现血糖指标异常，随后经内分泌科医生确诊为二型糖尿病。 During a routine checkup, he found abnormal blood sugar levels and was later diagnosed by an endocrinologist with type 2 diabetes.

Usage Guide

Context: medical, public health, clinical

Tone: neutral

Do Say

• 该医院使用最新的基因检测技术，成功确诊了一例此前难以辨别的罕见遗传病。(The hospital used the latest gene sequencing technology to successfully diagnose a rare hereditary disease that had previously been difficult to identify.)
• 患者被确诊为肺结核后，卫生部门立即启动了密切接触者追踪和隔离程序。(After the patient was confirmed to have tuberculosis, the health authority immediately initiated close-contact tracing and quarantine procedures.)

Don't Say

• 医生确诊了他的问题 — use 医生诊断出了他的病因 or 医生确诊他患有某某病; 确诊 requires specifying the condition with 为 or 患有, not a vague 问题

Origin & History

确 (definite/confirmed) + 诊 (diagnose/examine) — to reach a definitive, confirmed diagnosis

Cultural Context

Generation: All ages

Social background: Universal