DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diagnostic procedure mean? 

• DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE (noun)
  The noun DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE has 1 sense:

1. a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis

  Familiarity information: DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

diagnostic procedure; diagnostic technique

Hypernyms ("diagnostic procedure" is a kind of...):

procedure; process (a particular course of action intended to achieve a result)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diagnostic procedure"):

prenatal diagnosis (any of the diagnostic procedures used to determine whether a fetus has a genetic abnormality)

cardiography; electrocardiography (diagnostic procedure consisting of recording the activity of the heart electronically with a cardiograph (and producing a cardiogram))

echocardiography (a noninvasive diagnostic procedure that uses ultrasound to study to structure and motions of the heart)

echoencephalography (a noninvasive diagnostic procedure that uses ultrasound to study the anatomy of the brain)

auscultation (listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope))

roentgenography; X-ray photography (radiography that uses X-rays to produce a roentgenogram)

electromyography (diagnosis of neuromuscular disorders with the use of an electromyograph)

mammography (a diagnostic procedure to detect breast tumors by the use of X rays)

thermography (diagnostic technique using a thermograph to record the heat produced by different parts of the body; used to study blood flow and to detect tumors)

Holonyms ("diagnostic procedure" is a part of...):

medical diagnosis (identification of a disease from its symptoms)

 Context examples 

The date that a specific cardiac diagnostic procedure was performed.

(Date of Cardiac Diagnostic Procedure, NCI Thesaurus)

A diagnostic procedure in which a two-dimensional picture of all or part of the adrenal glands is obtained through the use of radioisotopes.

(Adrenal Scintigraphy, NCI Thesaurus)

A terminology codelist to describe any activity considered to be a therapeutic or diagnostic procedure.

(CDISC SDTM Procedure Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A prenatal diagnostic procedure in which a small sample of amniotic fluid is removed from the uterus by a needle inserted into the abdomen.

(Amniocentesis, NCI Thesaurus)

A diagnostic procedure to assess the circulatory perfusion of an anatomical location using a magnetic resonance imaging machine.

(Perfusion magnetic resonance imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called diagnostic procedure.

(Diagnostic test, NCI Dictionary)