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Webster 1913 Edition

Diagnostic

Diˊag-nos′tic

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Adj.
[Gr. [GREEK] able to distinguish, fr. [GREEK]: cf. F.
diagnostique
.]
Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.

Diˊag-nos′tic

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Noun.
The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others.

Webster 1828 Edition

Diagnostic

DIAGNOSTIC

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Adj.
[Gr., to know.] Distinguishing; characteristic; indicating the nature of a disease.

DIAGNOSTIC

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Noun.
The sign or symptom by which a disease is known or distinguished from others. Diagnostics are of two kinds; the adjunct, or such as are common to several diseases; and the pathognomonic, which always attend the disease, and distinguish it from all others.

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