diagnose (diagnos)

t.; pret. and pp. di agnosed, ppr. diagnosing. [ dition. (b) In zool. and bot., a specific characterization; a brief, precise, correct, and exclusively pertinent definition. In this sense diagnosis is nearly synonymous with definition: both differ from description in omitting details or non-e ential particulars; but definition may include points equally applicable to some other object, the par- Differential diagnosis, the distinction between two ticular combination points given making it a diagnosis. more or le similar diseases or objects of natural history. diagnost (di'ag-nost), n. [ =