diagnostics (diagnostiks)

[Pl. of diag nostic: see- ics.] That department of medicine which relates to the study of the symptoms as indicating the disease; symptomatology. But Radcliffe, who, with coarse manners and little book learning, had raised himself to the first practice in London chiefly by his rare skill in diagnostics , uttered the more alarming words-small-pox. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., xx. diagometer (di-a-gom'e-ter), n. [Irreg. διάγειν , conduct ( διά , through, + ἀγειν , lead), + μέτρον , a measure.] A kind of electroscope, consisting of a dry pile and a magnetized needle for an indicator, used for ascertaining the conducting power of different bodies. It was first employed by Rou eau to detect adulterations in olive-oil, fixed oils. said to have le conducting power than other