different between diagnostic vs ultrasonography

English

Alternative forms

• diagnostick (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /da????n?st?k/

Adjective

diagnostic (comparative more diagnostic, superlative most diagnostic)

1. Of, or relating to diagnosis.
2. (medicine) Characteristic of a particular disease.
3. Serving to indicate or specify a particular item or thing within a group of similar things.

Hyponyms

• pathognomonic

Translations

Noun

diagnostic (plural diagnostics)

1. Any technique used in medical diagnosis.
2. (computing) Any tool or technique used to find the root of a problem.
3. That by which anything is known; a symptom.

See also

• diagnostics

French

Noun

diagnostic m (plural diagnostics)

1. diagnosis

Related terms

• diagnostique

Romanian

Etymology

From French diagnostic.

Noun

diagnostic n (plural diagnostice)

1. diagnostic

Declension

English

Etymology

ultra- +? sonography

Noun

ultrasonography (countable and uncountable, plural ultrasonographies)

1. (medicine) The use of ultrasound to produce diagnostic images of the internal organs of the body, or of a foetus.
2. The use of ultrasound to form images of underwater structures.

Synonyms

• sonography

Related terms

• ultrasonographer
• ultrasonographic

Translations