diagnostician
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]diagnostician (plural diagnosticians)
- A person who diagnoses, especially a medical doctor.
- 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.
- 1964 September 24, “ROBERT L. HUTTON, DIAGNOSTICIAN, 83; Internist Dies —Had Been on Lincoln Hospital Staff”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Dr. Robert Leroy Hutton, a retired specialist in internal medicine and a well‐known diagnostician, died yesterday here.
- 1969 July 13, Lawrence M. Bensky, “Susan Sontag, Indignant, Stoical, Complex, Useful -- and Moral”, in The New York Times[2]:
- "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."
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses
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Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French diagnosticien.
Noun
[edit]diagnostician m (plural diagnosticieni)
Declension
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| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | diagnostician | diagnosticianul | diagnosticieni | diagnosticienii | |
| genitive-dative | diagnostician | diagnosticianului | diagnosticieni | diagnosticienilor | |
| vocative | diagnosticianule | diagnosticienilor | |||