Diagnostic vs Prognostic - What's the difference?
diagnostic | prognostic |
a technique etc. used in medical diagnosis
(computing) Any tool or technique used to find the root of a problem
(rare, medicine) prognosis
A sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.
A prediction of the future.
* Macaulay
One who predicts the future.
As adjectives the difference between diagnostic and prognostic
is that diagnostic is of, or relating to diagnosis while prognostic is of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.As nouns the difference between diagnostic and prognostic
is that diagnostic is a technique etc. used in medical diagnosis while prognostic is prognosis.diagnostic
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Alternative forms
* diagnostick (obsolete)Hyponyms
* pathognomonicNoun
(en noun)See also
* diagnosticsprognostic
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Alternative forms
* prognostick (obsolete)Synonyms
* foretelling * predictiveNoun
(en noun)- (Parr)
- Careful observers may foretell the hour
- (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show’r.
- While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o’er
- Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more. Jonathan Swift
- The choice of a successor was no light matter. That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of the highest import.