diagnostics

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

diagnostics
    n 1: the branch of medical science dealing with the
         classification of disease [syn: {nosology}, {diagnostics}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Diagnostics \Di`ag*nos"tics\, n.
   That part of medicine which has to do with ascertaining the
   nature of diseases by means of their symptoms or signs.
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         His rare skill in diagnostics.           --Macaulay.
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