diagnostics
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- noun
- /daɪəɡˈnɑːstɪks/
- Specialized
- The doctor explained that the diagnostics would help identify the disease affecting the patient.
- molecular diagnostics
- diagnostics and treatment
- diagnostics and therapeutics
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Examples
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We thank our collaborators in the National Center for Veterinary Diagnostics, Hanoi, Vietnam, for their valuable contributions to this study.
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Increased investment in diagnostics and treatment of TB remains a priority.
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We're still waiting on the diagnostics report.
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I want to do these diagnostics and get out of here as soon as possible, OK?
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We need to check your diagnostics.
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Actually, diagnostics are not encouraging, Captain.
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These men and women are here... because the results of your diagnostics came back with a few surprises.
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I'm capable of running my own diagnostics thank you very much.
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We do some brain imaging, glaucoma diagnostics as well as brain tumor diagnostics.
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Most notable is health care, where advances in screening and diagnostics, surgical procedures, and medical devices are constantly being introduced.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
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6.0
The study of diseases and a disease or other body problem
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The study of how doctors name and group diseases
Surface Forms
Morphology
diagnostics = diagnostic (transparent) = diagnostic + s
The word 'diagnostics' is a straightforward pluralization of 'diagnostic', indicating the field or collection of diagnostic practices.
Etymology
Diagnostics comes from the Greek parts dia- 'through' and gnosis 'knowledge', the same root as diagnose. In medicine, diagnostics are the tests and checks doctors use to 'find out' what disease a person has, so the word means ways of finding and naming illness.