An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DIAGNOSTIC
diagnostic, symptomatic
(adjective) characteristic or indicative of a disease; “a diagnostic sign of yellow fever”; “a rash symptomatic of scarlet fever”; “symptomatic of insanity”; “a rise in crime symptomatic of social breakdown”
diagnostic
(adjective) concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis; “a diagnostic reading test”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
diagnostic (comparative more diagnostic, superlative most diagnostic)
Of, or relating to diagnosis.
(medicine) Characteristic of a particular disease.
Serving to indicate or specify a particular item or thing within a group of similar things.
Hyponyms
• pathognomonic
Noun
diagnostic (plural diagnostics)
Any technique used in medical diagnosis.
(computing) Any tool or technique used to find the root of a problem.
That by which anything is known; a symptom.
Source: Wiktionary
Di`ag*nos"tic, a. Etym: [Gr. diagnostique.]
Definition: Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.
Di`ag*nos"tic, n.
Definition: The mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COVERT
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