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UK
/dˌaɪəɡnˈɒstɪk/
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[ US /ˌdaɪəɡˈnɑstɪk/ ]
[ US /ˌdaɪəɡˈnɑstɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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characteristic or indicative of a disease
a diagnostic sign of yellow fever
a rise in crime symptomatic of social breakdown
symptomatic of insanity
a rash symptomatic of scarlet fever -
concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis
a diagnostic reading test
How To Use diagnostic In A Sentence
- Of course the appendix has always been subject to inflammation, just as it is now, but in former years the disease we call appendicitis bore various names, depending upon the diagnostic skill of the attending physician. Appendicitis
- Pathology, Inc. specializes in women's health diagnostic testing services, with expertise in gynecologic pathology, genitourinary pathology, gastrointestinal pathology, dermatopathology, hematopathology and cytopathology. Business Wire Travel News
- After this she was not strong enough to work in interventional cardiology and devoted herself to clinical and diagnostic cardiology.
- Goodness of fit was assessed by diagnostic plots and the statistical significance of the Pearson chi-square of the fitted model.
- The duck feather did not contain diagnostic characters for species identification.
- While on the subject of that patient, although he does eventually say: Once believed to be rare, the malady, also called celiac sprue, is now recognized more frequently thanks to sophisticated diagnostic tests. the fact remains that fifteen years ago, when this poor lady began her medical misadventures, anyone who even thought of celiac disease would have been -- correctly -- laughed out of the conference room. "How Doctors Think": A Disappointment
- It provides a powerful method in laser assessment and alignment, and provides a diagnostic tool for measuring optical surfaces and transmissive components.
- We analyzed more than 3000 infrared thermograms acquired from 1256 admitted patients and developed a thermo-visual diagnostic method for estimating the severity of intracranial hypertension.
- Data collection and analysis Positive and negative likelihood ratios (LR) and diagnostic odds ratios (DOR) were calculated.
- Objective To explore the diagnostic value of screening cervix lesion with colposcope .