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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Diagnostic \Di'ag*nos"tic\, noun The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Diagnostic \Di'ag*nos"tic\, adjective [Gr. ? able to distinguish, fr. ?: cf. F. diagnostique.] Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
diagnostic
adjective
1: 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)}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
65 Moby Thesaurus words for "diagnostic": characteristic, characterizing, connotative, constructional, constructive, contrastive, definitional, demonstrative, denominative, denotative, descriptive, designative, diacritical, differencing, differential, differentiative, discriminating, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing, emblematic, evidential, exegetic, exhibitive, expressive, figural, figurative, hermeneutic, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, implicative, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual, individualizing, individuating, interpretational, interpretive, meaningful, metaphorical, naming, pathognomonic, peculiar, personalizing, proper, representative, semantic, semeiological, semiotic, separative, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, symptomatological, tropological, typical
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