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Findings

Meaning in medicine, with examples

/ˈfaɪndɪŋz/nounCommon term

In medicine, findings means: The facts discovered by examining a patient or doing a test, such as a sound heard in the chest or a shadow on an X-ray.

In Turkish: bulgular

How it is used

Usually plural. Doctors talk about examination, clinical and imaging findings, and say findings are 'consistent with' or 'suggestive of' a diagnosis. An 'incidental finding' is something found by chance while looking for something else.

Example sentences

  1. These findings are consistent with right lower lobe pneumonia.

  2. Let me summarise my findings: the abdomen is soft but tender in the right iliac fossa.

Common collocations

  • clinical findings
  • examination findings
  • incidental finding
  • findings are consistent with
  • key findings
  • physical examinationThe part of a consultation where the doctor looks at, feels, taps and listens to the patient's body to find signs of disease.
  • signEvidence of disease that a doctor can see, feel, hear or measure, such as a rash, a heart murmur or a high temperature, rather than something the patient reports.
  • investigationA test or examination, such as a blood test or a scan, done to find the cause of a patient's problem or to check their condition.
  • unremarkableNormal, with nothing unusual or worrying found; used in examination notes and test reports.
  • working diagnosisThe most likely diagnosis at a given moment, used to guide tests and treatment until it is confirmed or changed.

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