diagnostic

diagnostic
    adj 1: concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis;
           "a diagnostic reading test"
    2: characteristic or indicative of a disease; "a diagnostic sign
       of yellow fever"; "a rash symptomatic of scarlet fever";
       "symptomatic of insanity"; "a rise in crime symptomatic of
       social breakdown" [syn: {diagnostic}, {symptomatic}]
    

Diagnostic \Di`ag*nos"tic\, a. [Gr. ? able to distinguish, fr.
   ?: cf. F. diagnostique.]
   Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the
   nature of a disease.
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Diagnostic \Di`ag*nos"tic\, n.
   The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or
   distinguished from others.
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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