diagnostician

English

Etymology

From diagnosis +‎ -ician.

Noun

diagnostician (plural diagnosticians)

1. 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

• diagnosis
• diagnostics
• differential diagnosis

 

Translations

a medical doctor specialized in diagnoses

• French: interniste (fr) m
• Greek: διαγνωσιολόγος (el) m or f (diagnosiológos)
• Hungarian: diagnoszta (hu)
• Irish: aitheantóir m
• Italian: diagnosta m or f, diagnostico (it) m, diagnostica (it) f
• Maori: tākuta tautuhi mate
• Russian: диагно́стик (ru) m (diagnóstik), диагно́ст (ru) m (diagnóst)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дијагно̀стича̄р m, дијагно̀стича̄рка f

  Roman: dijagnòstičār (sh) m, dijagnòstičārka (sh) f

• Swedish: diagnostiker c
• Tagalog: manunuring-aral

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French diagnosticien.

Noun

diagnostician m (plural diagnosticieni)

1. diagnostician

Declension

Declension of diagnostician

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) diagnostician	diagnosticianul	(niște) diagnosticieni	diagnosticienii
genitive/dative	(unui) diagnostician	diagnosticianului	(unor) diagnosticieni	diagnosticienilor
vocative	diagnosticianule		diagnosticienilor