Word Meanings - DIAGNOSIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art or act of recognizing the presence of disease from its signs or symptoms, and deciding as to its character; also, the decision arrived at. 2. Scientific determination of any kind; the concise description of characterization of a species.

Additional info about word: DIAGNOSIS

The art or act of recognizing the presence of disease from its signs or symptoms, and deciding as to its character; also, the decision arrived at. 2. Scientific determination of any kind; the concise description of characterization of a species. 3. Critical perception or scrutiny; judgment based on such scrutiny; esp., perception pf, or judgment concerning, motives and character. The quick eye for effects, the clear diagnosis of men's minds, and the love of epigram. Compton Reade. My diagnosis of his character proved correct. J. Payn. Differential diagnosis , the determination of the distinguishing characteristics as between two similar diseases or conditions.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIAGNOSIS)

• Characteristic
• Distinction
• peculiarity
• diagnosis
• idiosyncrasy
• speciality
• individuality
• personality
• singularity
• Token
• Evidence
• exhibition
• demonstration
• sample
• illustration
• memorial
• symbol
• indication
• badge
• index
• symptom
• sign

Related words: (words related to DIAGNOSIS)

• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• INDEXICAL
  Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.
• BADGELESS
  Having no badge. Bp. Hall.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• IDIOSYNCRASY
  A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity. The individual mind . . . takes its tone from the
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• BADGE
  A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one. (more info) AS. beág, beáh, bracelet, collar, crown, OS b in comp., AS. b to bow, 1. A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person;
• BADGERING
  1. The act of one who badgers. 2. The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.
• SYMBOLISM
  The science of creeds; symbolics. (more info) 1. The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms. 2. A system
• BADGER
  An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
• MEMORIAL DAY
  A day, May 30, appointed for commemorating, by decorating their graves with flowers, by patriotic exercises, etc., the dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War in the United States; Decoration Day. It is a legal holiday in most of the
• TOKENLESS
  Without a token.
• EVIDENCER
  One whi gives evidence.
• SYMPTOM
  Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms
• BADGER STATE
  Wisconsin; -- a nickname.
• MEMORIALIZER
  One who petitions by a memorial. T. Hook.
• SYMPTOMATIC; SYMPTOMATICAL
  Gr. 1. Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else. Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper. Macaulay. 2. According to symptoms; as, a
• MEMORIALIZE
  To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature. T. Hook.
• SYMBOLIZATION
  The act of symbolizing; symbolical representation. Sir T. Browne.
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• COINDICATION
  One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• TRIPERSONALITY
  The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.