diagnostic
IPA: daɪʌgnˈɑstɪk
noun
- Any technique used in medical diagnosis.
- (computing) Any tool or technique used to find the root of a problem.
- That by which anything is known; a symptom.
adjective
- Of, or relating to diagnosis.
- (medicine) Characteristic of a particular disease.
- Serving to indicate or specify a particular item or thing within a group of similar things.
- (education) Intended to assess a student's preexisting knowledge on the material being taught.
- (biology) (of a skeletal or genetic feature) Characteristic of a particular taxon or clade.
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Examples of "diagnostic" in Sentences
- The definitions are in the diagnostic manuals.
- The main LaPD diagnostic is the movable probe.
- The name was taken from the diagnostic screen.
- The medical community uses the diagnostic manual.
- The millenarian undertones may be diagnostic of this.
- Earthworks are diagnostic of the Belle Glade culture.
- The diagnostic approach is the same as for pancytopenia.
- The primary diagnostic factor is a malformation of the skull.
- Another such test is the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination.
- The diagnostic portion can be the most difficult and costly portion of the test.
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