Diagnostics

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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