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DIAGNOSTICIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diagnostician mean? 

DIAGNOSTICIAN (noun)
  The noun DIAGNOSTICIAN has 1 sense:

1. a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosisplay

  Familiarity information: DIAGNOSTICIAN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DIAGNOSTICIAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

diagnostician; pathologist

Hypernyms ("diagnostician" is a kind of...):

medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)

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

aetiologist; etiologist (a specialist in the etiology of diseases)

Instance hyponyms:

Florey; Howard Florey; Sir Howard Walter Florey (British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1898-1968))

Karl Landsteiner; Landsteiner (United States pathologist (born in Austria) who discovered human blood groups (1868-1943))

Paget; Sir James Paget (English pathologist who discovered the cause of trichinosis (1814-1899))

Francis Peyton Rous; Peyton Rous; Rous (United States pathologist who discovered viruses that cause tumors (1879-1970))

Rudolf Karl Virchow; Rudolf Virchow; Virchow (German pathologist who recognized that all cells come from cells by binary fission and who emphasized cellular abnormalities in disease (1821-1902))

Derivation:

diagnostics (the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease)


 Context examples 


I mean to tell you that you are a poor diagnostician.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Undoubtedly you are both excellent doctors, he said; but if you care a whit for the opinion of the patient, let him tell you that you are poor diagnosticians.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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