"retrodiagnose" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2007, Richard C. Keller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa, The University of Chicago Press, page 85",
          "text": "Rather than retrodiagnosing colonial patients through glimpses and gaps in their stories—was this one a paranoid schizophrenic? did that one suffer major depressive psychosis? was a third borderline?— […]",
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          "ref": "2012, Sam Kean, The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code, Little, Brown and Company",
          "text": "It's still really important in medicine, of course, but now you can do anthropology with genetics, or retrodiagnose famous historical figures, or even do genetics-based origami and computing.",
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          "ref": "2015, Steve Silberman, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, Avery",
          "text": "At the outset of his article on Cavendish, however, Sacks stated firmly that he was not just jumping on the bandwagon of retrodiagnosing famous geeks from history with a trendy disorder.",
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        "To retroactively diagnose a dead person with a medical or psychological condition."
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