(a.) Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.
(n.) The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
(2) CT appears to yield important diagnostic contribution to preoperative staging.
(3) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(4) By combined histologic and cytologic examinations, the overall diagnostic rate was raised to 87.7%.
(5) Stress is laid on certain principles of diagnostic research in the event of extra-suprarenal pheochromocytomas.
(6) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(7) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
(8) Diagnostic work-up and management of intracranial arachnoid cysts are still controversial.
(9) These patients had undergone selective and bilateral simultaneous IPS sampling for diagnostic purposes or for neurosurgical indications.
(10) These deficiencies in the data compromise HIV surveillance based on diagnostic testing, and supplementary bias-free data are needed.
(11) SD is shown to have therapeutic and differential diagnostic significance in varying pathological conditions of cerebral dopaminergic systems.
(12) A review is presented concerning the development of new neuroimaging techniques in the last decade which have improved the diagnostic exploration of patients with spinal cord injuries, including studies of possible sequelae.
(13) The image was altered in the expected way, which means that the device is suitable for investigating the possibilities of different filters to improve the diagnostic ability.
(14) The following case highlights the diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas encountered in a middle-aged patient who presented with dementia and apathetic hyperthyroidism.
(15) To determine the diagnostic and discriminative value of these subisoenzymes in polymyositis, we analyzed CK and its MM subisoenzyme forms in serum samples from 22 patients with myositis and from 23 controls.
(16) Older subjects in all diagnostic categories, including normal subjects, had higher postdexamethasone plasma cortisol levels.
(17) Despite significant differences in mean response, there was a large overlap of individual responses between diagnostic subgroups.
(18) Prompt diagnosis, in which timely diagnostic laparoscopy and ultrasound evaluation of the pelvis may be helpful, provides the opportunity for prompt laparotomy with untwisting of the torsion and stabilization of the adnexa by suture and cystectomy, if possible, extirpation if not.
(19) We conclude that inflammatory lesions at these sites are not uncommon and that CT scans are diagnostic in the great majority.
(20) We report on experiences with diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and the results of vocational rehabilitation.
Symptomatic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Symptomatical
Example Sentences:
(1) Symptomatic improvement was obtained in 14 of the 15 hands, and sensory-evoked response improved in 13 hands.
(2) Although antihistamines are widely used for symptomatic treatment of seasonal (allergic) rhinitis, the role of histamines in the pathogenesis of infectious rhinitis is not clear.
(3) There was prompt symptomatic relief and amelioration of signs of nephritis.
(4) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
(5) To determine the correlation with clinical findings, the patients were divided into three groups: (1) symptomatic with monoclonal immunoelectrophoretic patterns; (2) asymptomatic with monoclonal immunoelectrophoretic patterns; (3) asymptomatic with polyclonal immunoelectrophoretic patterns.
(6) The prevalence of greater than or equal to 1 mm ST-segment depression was 22% (symptomatic in 25%, and silent in 75%) and did not differ between groups with and without cardiac events.
(7) Eight children with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection had symptomatic cardiac dysfunction.
(8) The authors report the clinical case of an 18-year-old patient who presented with a symptomatic mass in the left upper quadrant 6 months after having infectious mononucleosis.
(9) Complete normalization was more common in the idiopathic group (66%) than in the symptomatic group (27%).
(10) All six patients who were symptomatic became asymptomatic within 1-5 months of starting methotrexate.
(11) Cholecystectomy is advocated in symptomatic patients with this condition, even when gallstones are not present.
(12) The plasma zinc level was significantly lower at the time of onset of zinc deficiency than in normal subjects, before the procedure of TPN, or at the time of symptomatic relief achieved by administration of zinc.
(13) Chemotherapy failed to show any significant advantage over symptomatic treatment.
(14) With a minimum review period of 6 months complete remission of synovitis was obtained in 20%, while 63% gained symptomatic relief, with some reduction of synovitis.
(15) The diagnostic efficacy of 935 mammographies from the mammology service for self-referred symptomatic women was assessed for the period of 1975-1988.
(16) Early initiation of adequate antibiotic therapy, as well as symptomatic treatment using transfusion, steroids and anticonvulsants, are important.
(17) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
(18) According to the author's observations in a federal penitentiary, bank robbery more often is a symptomatic act with psychological meaning.
(19) Occasionally symptomatic kinking of the internal carotid artery will require correction.
(20) This therapy resulted in symptomatic and clinical improvement in both patients within several weeks.