Pretreatment vs Prediagnosis - What's the difference?
pretreatment | prediagnosis | Related terms |
(medicine) Prior to diagnosis
(medicine) A preliminary diagnosis, particularly one made before the occurrence of symptoms
*{{quote-book, 1965, Instrument Society of America, Advances in Instrumentation
, passage=The prediagnosis of disease through the use of mass biochemical screening techniques utilizes systems of analysis in which we have considerable experience.}}
Prediagnosis is a related term of pretreatment.
As nouns the difference between pretreatment and prediagnosis
is that pretreatment is any treatment received before some other process while prediagnosis is a preliminary diagnosis, particularly one made before the occurrence of symptoms.As an adjective prediagnosis is
prior to diagnosis.prediagnosis
English
Alternative forms
*pre-diagnosisAdjective
(-)- the prediagnosis stage of dealing with cancer
Synonyms
*prediagnosticNoun
(prediagnoses)citation