Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease;
[syn: nosology, diagnostics]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Diagnostics \Di`ag*nos"tics\, n.
That part of medicine which has to do with ascertaining the
nature of diseases by means of their symptoms or signs.
[1913 Webster]
His rare skill in diagnostics. --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
diagnostics
n 1: the branch of medical science dealing with the
classification of disease [syn: nosology, diagnostics]