How to Use diagnostic in a Sentence

diagnostic

1 of 2 adjective
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  • Ultrasound is now widely used as a diagnostic tool.
  • One important diagnostic feature of this condition is a mild rash.
  • That has changed over the past 10 years, thanks to diagnostic tests to confirm the disease with brain scans.
    — Linda Goler Blount, STAT, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The Holy See said the short visit was for diagnostic tests and is back at the Vatican.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • There are a bunch of diagnostic tools available within the app.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The association is in the process of acquiring the diagnostic equipment and hopes to have it in place soon.
    — Joe Drape, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The changes in my heart rate and blood pressure, as well as my other symptoms, all matched the diagnostic criteria for POTS.
    — Jackie Lam, Women's Health, 7 May 2023
  • Medicare covers a diagnostic test but does not pay for the device.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The trailer opens from the rear, to load and unload the racer, and also from the side to help store some accessory tool carts and diagnostic equipment.
    — Sal Vaglica, Car and Driver, 21 Jan. 2023
  • False positives and negatives are a risk with any rapid diagnostic test, the FDA says.
    — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 13 May 2023
  • Grail makes a diagnostic test that screens for 50 different types of cancer via a single blood test.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2023
  • If a board fails when a factory worker places it on the tester, the board is handed to another worker who runs a diagnostic test on it.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
  • These aren’t standalone tests, and physicians will use them along with other diagnostic tools.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023
  • But for adults, there are no diagnostic criteria for autism.
    — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Results from diagnostic tests are expected to take weeks to months.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 28 Mar. 2023
  • After diagnostic questions, the sleep specialist guides clients through the showroom based on their needs.
    — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
  • No blood test or other diagnostic test can confirm the syndrome.
    — Markian Hawryluk, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Yet little changed with the gift of diagnostic clarity.
    — Hannah Zeavin, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2023
  • There is no single definition of long Covid and no diagnostic test to confirm it.
    — Gwynn Guilford and Lauren Weber, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The startup has developed a diagnostic test to detect up to 50 different kinds of cancer from a single blood draw.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2023
  • But the most common screening tools for a condition like dementia are not in and of themselves diagnostic of anything.
    — Anna Chodos, STAT, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Humans use a series of standard tests to generate a diagnosis, and AI is built on top of this diagnostic process.
    — Meredith Broussard, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Morel notes that the asynchronous nature of telemedicine to reduces wait times and streamlines the diagnostic process, allows doctors to focus on more complex cases.
    — Hessie Jones, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Patient survival rates are higher when cancers are detected early, and one test for a range of cancers could save on diagnostic costs.
    — Dasha Afanasieva, Bloomberg.com, 2 June 2023
  • The program would: * Speed up the approval of point-of-care diagnostic tests, allowing patients to be screened and begin treatment in a single visit, rather than the current multistep process.
    — Michelle Andrews, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The company developed a diagnostic test to detect up to 50 different kinds of cancer from a single blood draw.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
  • And according to the new study, the unexpected increase in SIDS deaths in 2020 is most likely a result of shifting diagnostic criteria.
    — Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Companies also play up the danger of diagnostic tests like amnio.
    — Anna Clark, ProPublica, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Sadly, some diagnostic tests may not be available in the primary language that patients speak, Edgerly said, but there are several ways to get answers.
    — Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Research has shown that younger people with breast cancer are more likely to experience diagnostic delays.
    — Lauren Gray, SELF, 1 Apr. 2024
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diagnostic

2 of 2 noun
  • The lack of diagnostics is part of a larger problem, Meng notes.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2018
  • The touch points for the antennas are used for diagnostics.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 6 Dec. 2018
  • The physicians used state of the art diagnostics to determine the best course of treatment.
    — Chris Coppola, azcentral, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Thieves who access the onboard diagnostics gain access to the CAN bus.
    — Doug Jacobson, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The first is as a clinical diagnostic; the other is as a public health tool.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Nothing yet has put her off her course to solve the puzzles of modern diagnostics.
    — Erica Kasper, WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
  • It’s not meant to replace a human doctor, since the pod is for diagnostics rather than treatment.
    — Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Under that plan, all of the state's 373 nursing homes are receiving free tests and diagnostics.
    — Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2020
  • The next step is to try to develop a bedside diagnostic that hospitals can use in real time, Azar said.
    — Morgan Winsor and, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The pullout leaves the isolated nation with about 1 year to line up a new source of medicines and diagnostics to combat a deepening TB crisis.
    — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 29 June 2018
  • The company already has applied to market its rapid antigen test as a diagnostic that can be used at labs.
    — USA Today, 24 Sep. 2020
  • While the diagnostic is relatively clear in my view, there's one aspect that needs repeating and frames the entirety of the problem in many firms.
    — Jc Gaillard, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The sharing of the sequences by Chinese researchers allowed public health labs around the world to develop their own diagnostics for the virus, which now has been found in 18 other countries.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 31 Jan. 2020
  • And the availability of having a diagnostic didn't change our ability to do the surveillance.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 29 May 2020
  • There, he is supposed to be working on an initiative related to point-of-care diagnostics.
    — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 22 Apr. 2020
  • In health care, their research is being applied to improve diagnostics, with the potential to create tests that can detect minute changes in the level of molecules in the blood.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Both Samsung and Apple have promised to make proprietary tools and diagnostics available to consumers.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The companies said Wednesday the deal would grow Zoetis’s presence in veterinary diagnostics, a sector that has had an annual compound growth rate of about 10% for the past three years.
    — Allison Prang, WSJ, 16 May 2018
  • The idea was for Apple doctors to match Apple Health data with more advanced in-clinic diagnostics data.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Cotton told the Journal that the company was running a diagnostic on the OPM network and discovered malware.
    — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 4 June 2021
  • Initially, doctors believed his Achilles tendon was about to rupture but further diagnostics showed that a small piece of bone had broken off the back of his foot was getting pinches in the joint.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Doctors use a clinical diagnostic like a strep test to tell whether a patient is sick with a disease that can be treated with particular medicines.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The research will allow scientists to select the best animal on which to test diagnostics, vaccines and therapies to combat the virus.
    — Laura Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 3 Apr. 2020
  • While Nadella wants to expand access to care through diagnostics, other founders are using software to bridge healthcare gaps.
    — Katie Jennings, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Now Dorman was starting a new company in a new field, aiming at disease diagnostics.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 1 June 2018
  • On the desolate upper floors of the mall, the landlord put in a diagnostics center run by the National Health Service, an adult education center and a co-working space.
    — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • Pet owners have the benefit of getting a free exam for their pets and all of the laboratory diagnostics provided for them.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Manager Bruce Bochy said Gott had tightness in his right forearm and will undergo more diagnostics.
    — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Over time, Google could license these systems to clinics or sell them through the company’s cloud-computing division as a sort of diagnostics-as-a-service.
    — Mark Bergen, latimes.com, 18 June 2018
  • Apple also just launched a diagnostics tool users can access online.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2023

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