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diagnostic

  • adjective
  • /daɪ.əɡˈnɒs.tɪk/

Of, or relating to diagnosis.

Other meanings

  1. Characteristic of a particular disease.

  2. Serving to indicate or specify a particular item or thing within a group of similar things.

Related words

  • adiagnostic
  • autodiagnostic
  • biodiagnostic
  • clinicodiagnostic
  • coprodiagnostic
  • cytodiagnostic
  • diagnostically
  • diagnosticate
  • diagnosticity
  • electrodiagnostic
  • eudiagnostic
  • histodiagnostic

Word history

From Ancient Greek "διαγνωστικός".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “diagnostic” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.