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Although, IFS forms a membership degree and a non-membership degree separately in such a way that sum of the two degrees must not exceed one, but one of the important and integral part i.e., degree of neutrality is not taken into consideration in IFS, which is generally occurred in medical diagnosis. In such circumstances, picture fuzzy set (PFS) can be considered as a strong mathematical tool, which adequate in situations when human opinions involved more answers of type: yes, abstain, no. For this purpose, this article, proposes some distance measures on PFS and studies some of its properties. Also, an attempt has been made to carry out medical diagnosis via the proposed distance measures on PFSs and exhibit the technique with a suitable case study. 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