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DIAGNOSIS

Volume 5 · 60 words · 1797 Edition

(from διαγνώσκω to discern or distinguish), the diagnostics or the signs of a disease. They are of two kinds, viz. the adjunct and pathognomonic; the first are common to several diseases, and serve only to point out the difference between diseases of the same species; the latter are those which always attend the disease, and distinguish it from all others.