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Definition of Diagnostic procedure
1. Noun. A procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis.
Group relationships: Medical Diagnosis
Specialized synonyms: Prenatal Diagnosis, Cardiography, Electrocardiography, Echocardiography, Echoencephalography, Auscultation, Roentgenography, X-ray Photography, Electromyography, Mammography, Thermography
Generic synonyms: Procedure, Process
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diagnostic Procedure
Literary usage of Diagnostic procedure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Health, United States, 1998: With Socioeconomic Status & Health Chart Book edited by E Pamuk (1999)
"Procedure—The National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) defines a procedure as
a surgical or nonsurgical operation, diagnostic procedure, or special ..."
2. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"... performed as part of the routine diagnostic procedure, must be questioned when
the incidence of synchronous primary tumors found by this procedure is ..."
3. A Handbook of Medical Diagnosis: For the Use of Practitioners and Students by James Cornelius Wilson (1915)
"This diagnostic procedure is of very great value. It depends upon the property
of the blood-serum of an enteric fever patient, when added to a fresh culture ..."
4. Sas/stat 9.1 User's Guide by SAS Institute, Virginia Clark (2004)
"In other words, the standard diagnostic procedure gives a significantly higher
probability of a positive response than the test diagnostic procedure. ..."
5. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1914)
"CS Bacon and RB Hall seem to think it pernicious to teach hysterotomy as a
diagnostic procedure, as the method of choice in placenta previa, etc. ..."
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