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[ adjective ] concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis
Examples "a diagnostic clinic" "a diagnostic reading test" "diagnostic information" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)And there was the case of Tom_Hepker , a machinist , who was referred by a friend to a health machine quack who treated him with a so-called diagnostic machine for what Doctor_Fraud said was a system full of arsenic and strychnine . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] characteristic or indicative of e.g. a disease
Synonyms Examples "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" Related terms |
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