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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
diagnostic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
assessment
▪ This deliberate gathering of detailed information for teaching is termed diagnostic assessment.
category
▪ Analysis of variance and the Newman-Keuls procedure were applied to measure the statistical significance of means from different diagnostic categories.
▪ Clearly, some practicing therapists know how little use diagnostic categories are and how little scientific basis there is for them.
criteria
▪ The diagnostic criteria of Hanifin and Rajka were used.
▪ Therefore, as anticipated, hyperparathyroidism is regularly associated with hypophosphatemia, which is one of the diagnostic criteria of this disorder.
▪ The diagnostic criteria for ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease in the probands have been described.
▪ The current diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa reflect this evolutionary process but they have yet to achieve the final category.
▪ Although our method of classification is novel and requires further validation, the main findings were unaffected by choice of diagnostic criteria.
group
▪ The analyses covered a variety of diagnostic groups, age groups, and periods.
information
▪ Fault-response based systems are usually advocated when lots of reliable diagnostic information is available.
▪ In these conditions serum pepsinogen C provides additional diagnostic information, especially when expressed as pepsinogen A:C ratio.
▪ An effective general practitioner must have counselling skills to elicit important diagnostic information and manage consultations appropriately.
▪ A further follow-up in 1972 collected more detailed diagnostic information.
procedure
▪ After their diagnostic procedure the colonoscope was positioned at site of infusion and a second blood sample collected.
▪ A competent trial with moderation training, then, becomes a diagnostic procedure.
▪ Four patients had cholestasis and stricture at the time of the first diagnostic procedure.
▪ The most useful diagnostic procedure is aspiration and analysis of synovial fluid from an affected joint.
▪ At present the preferred diagnostic procedure is emergency endoscopy.
▪ But inherent in the diagnostic procedure is a presumption that defective embryos will be discarded.
▪ It may be that different subgroups of patients with differences in prognosis have been selected into the two diagnostic procedures.
▪ Some medical students were asked why they wanted to do a particular arduous diagnostic procedure on their patient.
purpose
▪ There were therefore, 375 patients referred for diagnostic purposes.
▪ The tests were of a type which could be used for diagnostic purposes.
▪ Other studies that used similar techniques for diagnostic purposes give a similar genuine false positive rate.
▪ The diagnostic purpose is particularly important and is best exemplified by a discussion of miscue analysis.
▪ He concluded that the test gave satisfactory results for diagnostic purposes.
▪ Control colonic tissue was taken from patients undergoing colonscopy for diagnostic purposes, but who had a negative examination.
▪ These subjects had all undergone colonoscopy for diagnostic purposes.
system
▪ Any diagnostic system that is quicker and cheaper than the present system would be of use.
▪ Such rule sets could identify problems in diagnostic systems and explain credit-scoring in loan application models.
▪ As mentioned previously, it is probably unwise to build stand-alone diagnostic systems that are independent of teacher-control.
▪ This process should be wherever possible part of a systematic analysis of diagnostic system requirements.
▪ If the disability is psychologically based diagnostic systems based on the use of multiple and unvalidated skin tests may reinforce the delusion.
▪ The focus of this paper is on knowledge based diagnostic systems and their potential within avionic components fault finding.
technique
▪ The possible dissemination of tumour by percutaneous fine needle aspiration cytology may result in these becoming the diagnostic techniques of choice.
▪ One extremely useful diagnostic technique is classroom observation by psychologists and / or educators familiar with the disorder.
▪ Hospital post-mortems, he goes on, are requested as a method of monitoring diagnostic technique and refining clinical skills.
▪ Iridology, sometimes referred to as iris diagnosis, is a non-invasive, painless diagnostic technique, according to practitioners.
▪ A reliable non-invasive diagnostic technique would represent a considerable advance.
▪ On top of our better understanding of plasma physics, we also had a wide range of new diagnostic techniques.
test
▪ His promotional leaflets referred to his routine practice of obtaining x ray films, running diagnostic tests, and prescribing treatment.
▪ In addition, the computer would run reading and diagnostic tests, offer remedial programmes and keep complete records of child attainment.
▪ She paid a certified repair shop $ 90 for a diagnostic test and had $ 550 of additional work.
▪ There are other diagnostic tests for hyponymy which are either discriminatory but insufficiently general, or general but insufficiently discriminatory.
▪ Let us assume one doctor has 100 patients for whom his diagnostic tests and treatment cost $ 2, 000.
▪ Remember that the hospital is in the business of selling services, and these include diagnostic tests.
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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After their diagnostic procedure the colonoscope was positioned at site of infusion and a second blood sample collected.
▪ Analysis of variance and the Newman-Keuls procedure were applied to measure the statistical significance of means from different diagnostic categories.
▪ Backers claim the pictures offer doctors a unique early-stage diagnostic window on blocked arteries and other coronary problems.
▪ C.. Ensure timely development, appropriate use, and availability of diagnostic tests and reagents.
▪ Fault-response based systems are usually advocated when lots of reliable diagnostic information is available.
▪ Included in the collection are diagnostic and testing materials, professional materials, and instructional materials to be used directly with learners.
▪ The famous Wassermann diagnostic blood test for syphilis has been used for forty years.
▪ Their location in the trachea and bronchi and their size are diagnostic.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diagnostic

Diagnostic \Di`ag*nos"tic\, n. The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others.

Diagnostic

Diagnostic \Di`ag*nos"tic\, a. [Gr. ? able to distinguish, fr. ?: cf. F. diagnostique.] Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
diagnostic

1620s (adjective and noun), from Greek diagnostikos "able to distinguish," from diagnostos, verbal adjective from diagignoskein (see diagnosis). Related: Diagnostics.

Wiktionary
diagnostic

a. 1 of, or relating to diagnosis 2 characteristic of a particular disease alt. 1 of, or relating to diagnosis 2 characteristic of a particular disease n. 1 a technique etc. used in medical diagnosis 2 (context computing English) Any tool or technique used to find the root of a problem

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WordNet
diagnostic

  1. adj. concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis; "a diagnostic clinic"; "a diagnostic reading test"; "diagnostic information"

  2. characteristic or indicative of e.g. a disease; "a diagnostic sign of yellow fever"; "diagnostic information"; "a rash symptomatic of scarlet fever"; "symptomatic of insanity"; "a rise in crime symptomatic of social breakdown" [syn: symptomatic, symptomatic of(p)]

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Usage examples of "diagnostic".

The Llano complex, in turn, is lumped into a large group of archeological remains that also includes younger artifact assemblages characterized by projectile points similar in form but lacking the diagnostic flutes.

Lieutenant Barclay is checking the modifications to the diagnostic biofilter, and he believes the transporter will be ready for you within the next couple hours.

Every monitor brightened as the screens began to crawl with diagnostics as the system rebooted, then the comps did a systems check and began to scroll command codes.

IN SPACE, the Kite resumed control over its comps once more and began a diagnostic check.

Hansa cyberneticists, and I ran all the diagnostics I could get my hands on, but to no effect.

Though ornithological writers are almost unanimous in distinguishing the buzzards as a group from the eagles, the grounds usually assigned for their separation are but slight, and the diagnostic character that can be best trusted is probably that in the former the bill is decurved from the base, while in the latter it is for about a third of its length straight.

However, my specialties include meal preparation, catalytic fuel conversion, enzymatic composition breakdown, chemical diagnostic programming, and bacterial composting acceleration.

The terms were so general, they were collections of so many traits, that they said very little in any useful diagnostic sense, especially since both were Gaussian curves in the actual population.

For example, one study of women undergoing gynecologic surgery indicated that the age of the patient had great diagnostic importance, and that notation of last menstrual period, biopsy of smear, pre-operative hemoglobin, and urine-sediment study were all much less important to making a diagnosis.

The onboard array lacks the diagnostic facilities to make a detailed analysis.

Fresno, her doctors attempted to explain to Foua and Nao Kao that they wanted to perform two more invasive diagnostic tests: a bronchoscopy, to see if the infection had originated in her right lung, and a sinus wash, to see if it had originated in her sinuses.

The diagnostic symptoms of anaemia are pallor of the face, lips, tongue, and general surface, weakness of the vital organs, hurried respiration on slight exercise, swelling or puffiness of the eyes, and a murmur of the heart, resembling the sound of a bellows.

Sivrak activated the diagnostics, rechanneled auxiliary power, and closed his wings for increased etheric stability.

The program had a number of familiar commands, and some that were new: it set permissions on the log files to unwritable, deleted the last line of the log file, engaged all diagnostic programs, updated size and hash information on all alarms, copied her executive file over the old one, altered the dates of creation and modification on her new file to those of the old one, then ended all diagnostic programs and reset permissions on the log files to writable.

CHRISTINE CHAPEL looked up from the biobed where she had been running a diagnostic routine for the last several minutes.