diagnostician

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English

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Etymology

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From diagnosis +‎ -ician.

Noun

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diagnostician (plural diagnosticians)

  1. A person who diagnoses, especially a medical doctor.
    Dr Smith was many things — a mentor, a friend, a helpful colleague — but his highest calling may have been as a diagnostician, in which role he undoubtedly saved lives by breaking a logjam in many a challenging differential diagnosis.
    • 1964 September 24, “ROBERT L. HUTTON, DIAGNOSTICIAN, 83; Internist Dies —Had Been on Lincoln Hospital Staff”, in The New York Times[1]:
      Dr. Robert Leroy Hutton, a retired specialist in internal medicine and a well‐known diagnostician, died yesterday here.
    • 1969 July 13, Lawrence M. Bensky, “Susan Sontag, Indignant, Stoical, Complex, Useful -- and Moral”, in The New York Times[2]:
      "More and more, the shrewdest thinkers and artists are precocious archeologists of ... ruins-in-the-making, indignant or stoical diagnosticians of defeat, enigmatic choreographers of the complex spiritual movements useful for individual survival in an era or permanent apocalypse."
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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French diagnosticien.

Noun

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diagnostician m (plural diagnosticieni)

  1. diagnostician

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