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diagnostician en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˌdaɪəɡnɒˈstɪʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *dwísder. Ancient Greek διά (diá) Ancient Greek δια- (dia-) Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱétider. Proto-Hellenic *gignṓskō Ancient Greek γῐγνώσκω (gĭgnṓskō) Ancient Greek δῐαγῐγνώσκω (dĭagĭgnṓskō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Hellenic *-tis Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́γνωσῐς (dĭắgnōsĭs)der. Latin diagnōsisder. English diagnosis English -ician English diagnostician From diagnosis + -ician.

Meanings

1. A person who diagnoses, especially a medical doctor.
   • Dr. Robert Leroy Hutton, a retired specialist in internal medicine and a well‐known diagnostician, died yesterday here. 1964 September 24, “ROBERT L. HUTTON, DIAGNOSTICIAN, 83; Internist Dies —Had Been on Lincoln Hospital Staff”, in The New York Times:
   • "More and more, the shrewdest thinkers and artists are precocious archeologists of ... ruins-in-the-making, indignant or stoical diagnosticians of defeat, enigmatic choreographers of the complex spiritual movements useful for individual survival in an era or permanent apocalypse." 1969 July 13, Lawrence M. Bensky, “Susan Sontag, Indignant, Stoical, Complex, Useful -- and Moral”, in The New York Times:
   • Dr Smith was many things — a mentor, a friend, a helpful colleague — but his highest calling may have been as a diagnostician, in which role he undoubtedly saved lives by breaking a logjam in many a challenging differential diagnosis.

Forms

Relateds

diagnosis · diagnostics · differential diagnosis

Translations (18)

el διαγνωσιολόγος (a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses) · tl manunuring-aral (a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses) · ga aitheantóir (a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses) · hu diagnoszta (a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses) · sh dijagnòstičār (a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses) · sh дијагно̀стича̄р (a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses) · mi tākuta tautuhi mate (a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses) · el διαγνώστρια (a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses) · ru диагно́ст (a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses) · sv diagnostiker (a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses) · sh dijagnòstičārka (a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses) · sh дијагно̀стича̄рка (a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses) · fr interniste (a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses) · ru диагно́стик (a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses) · it diagnostica (a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses) · el διαγνώστης (a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses) · it diagnostico (a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses) · it diagnosta (a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses)