DIAGNOSTICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diagnostics mean? 

• DIAGNOSTICS (noun)
  The noun DIAGNOSTICS has 1 sense:

1. the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease

  Familiarity information: DIAGNOSTICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIAGNOSTICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

diagnostics; nosology

Hypernyms ("diagnostics" is a kind of...):

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Derivation:

diagnostician (a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis)

 Context examples 

Examples include, unconventional screening and diagnostic practices, such as electro-dermal diagnostics, medical intuition, chiriography, functional cellular enzyme measures, and preventive practices such as panchakarma.

(Clinical Preventive Practices, NCI Thesaurus)

A program within the National Cancer Institute that stimulates and supports diagnostics research, resources and improved technologies to guide the choice of treatment for cancer patients.

(Cancer Diagnosis Program, NCI Thesaurus)

Their latest findings could be a major advance for Alzheimer’s diagnostics because the study points to tau seeds as potential biological “markers” for Alzheimer’s disease in the brain.

(New test detects protein associated with Alzheimer’s and CTE, National Institutes of Health)

That allows us to integrate electronics on flexible substrates, like clothing, shoes, and wrist bands for real time monitoring of biomedical diagnostics and athletic performance.

(Materials for the next generation of electronics and photovoltaics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This project focuses on capillary-based paper microfluidics to fill the need for ultra-low-cost blood coagulation diagnostics.

(Engineers create a simple test that can measure stress, National Science Foundation)

Improvements in the detection of early cancers and technologies to better visualize the living body in health and disease states will provide a wealth of knowledge that can lead to new and improved diagnostics, treatments and prevention strategies.

(Computers and Advanced Instrumentation, NCI Thesaurus)

In principle, we could encode new proteins made from new, unnatural amino acids—which would give us greater power than ever to tailor protein therapeutics and diagnostics and laboratory reagents to have desired functions.

(Expanding the Genetic Alphabet, NIH)