(n.) That part of medicine which has to do with ascertaining the nature of diseases by means of their symptoms or signs.
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.
Nosology
Definition:
(n.) A systematic arrangement, or classification, of diseases.
(n.) That branch of medical science which treats of diseases, or of the classification of diseases.
Example Sentences:
(1) ), nosological frontiers are still unclear and accordingly justify a comparative serological study of M.M., W.M., and B.M.G.
(2) This paper employs a cultural constructivist perspective to deconstruct these nosologies and the classificatory process itself.
(3) In the course of the years, López Ibor came to the conclusion that anxious thymopathy was not an independent nosological entity, rather that vital (also called endothymic) anxiety was an element present in all forms of neurotic disorders integrated with personality and biographical factors.
(4) Tier one comprises the nosological diagnosis, and tier two a detailed depiction of the component psychological dysfunctions.
(5) The nosological and conceptual controversies differentiating bilateral ballismus as a phenomenological entity are reviewed.
(6) However, they possibly represent two manifestations of the same nosological entity, which is initially dominated by a subretinal exudation in the macular region.
(7) The exact nosology of this form of excessive hair growth is discussed in relation to hirsuties and the possibility of it representing an 'atavistic' trait.
(8) Implications of comorbidity for research on the nature of psychopathology and the ultimate integration of dimensional and categorical features in our nosology are considered.
(9) Significant heterogeneity has been noted in the parameters of hemogram, myelogram and in the subpopulational composition of peripheral blood and bone marrow lymphocytes in each nosologic form, the group of patients with hyper-IgM syndrome has proved to be most heterogeneic.
(10) An identical type of lesions was revealed: disorders of the connective tissue, destruction of elastic fibers, alterations of vasa vasorum, with cellular reactions typical of each nosological form reflecting the peculiarities of the immunological processes.
(11) A review of the literature is included and the standpoints concerning the nosological entities are discussed.
(12) Clinical and histologic variation of this process has resulted in nosologic confusion, and the cases in the English literature were reviewed to characterize it within racial groups.
(13) 6 autopsy cases of primary leptomeningeal sarcomatosis are presented as a distinct nosological entity with a variable clinical picture and morphology in 5 males and 1 female.
(14) This led to recognize the nosological relationships of these atypical cases with Parsonage-Turner's syndrome and to emphasize the similarities with Guillain-Barré syndrome.
(15) Inflammatory parameters are definitely involved, and the nosological neighbourhood to angylosing spondylitis is discussed.
(16) The nosology of pulmonary contusion is discussed in relation to several factors, including shock, perfusions and associated lesions.
(17) Classifications of mental disorders, more or less based on nosological concepts, are mentioned, as well as the recent emphasis on operational tools for classification.
(18) 80 inpatients were interviewed twice by the same physician with an interval of 24 h. By forming subgroups concerning diagnosis and duration of hospitalization, it was possible to examine the influence of these two criteria on the retest reliability of the following findings: (1) aspects of the interview; (2) AMP symptoms; (3) AMP syndromes; (4) clinical syndrome diagnoses, and (5) nosological diagnoses.
(19) In both classifications the unspecified and the atypical suffered a great diagnostic mobility; in both nosologies the schizophrenia was the most unchangeable diagnosis, no patient discharged with this diagnosis changed to another in the follow up.
(20) The clinical electroencephalography of the sixth and seventh decade of this century saw its task in the coordination of EEG-findings and nosological entities.