diagnosis / diagnostics

[ayers]

"re -hello"

I have an other problem this evening ;
What is the difference between diagnosis and diagnostics? And diagnosing; when should it be used?

Is diagnostics the science of diagnoses?
( and I am totally lost for "diagnosing" ... :$ )

re- thanks for help

 

[se16teddy]

Well what I was going to say, before I decided it was probably an over-simplification, was:
- Diagnostics is a science or art.
- When you apply that science or art you diagnose or do a diagnosis. What you are doing is diagnosing.
- The result of that work is a diagnosis.

 

[OLN]

- J'ai aussi trouvé nosologie comme traduction du domaine diagnostics (on s'écarte)
- diagnostic : diagnostique (adj)
- diagnosis : diagnostic (nm)
- diagnose : diagnostiquer, établir ou poser un diagnostic

 

[Keith Bradford]

• Diagnostics is the theory and science of discovering the nature of an illness. E.g. The students has an exam in diagnostics.
• A diagnosis is a single decision by a doctor, as to the nature of an illness. E.g. Dr Smith's diagnosis was that she had angina. (Plural: diagnoses)
• To diagnose is the verb. E.g. The doctors were unable to diagnose my problem.
• Diagnosing is the present participle of the verb, but also a noun. E.g. Diagnosing meningitis is difficult.

 

[kuckunniwi]

• Diagnostics is the theory and science of discovering the nature of an illness. E.g. The students has an exam in diagnostics.
• A diagnosis is a single decision by a doctor, as to the nature of an illness. E.g. Dr Smith's diagnosis was that she had angina. (Plural: diagnoses)
• To diagnose is the verb. E.g. The doctors were unable to diagnose my problem.
• Diagnosing is the present participle of the verb, but also a noun. E.g. Diagnosing meningitis is difficult.

So, for instance, [the science of] molecular diagnostics allowed the doctors to reach a [molecular] diagnosis ?

Or: Since the doctors couldn't seem to correctly diagnose my condition (namely, no actual diagnosis being yielded by all their diagnosing), I decided to change to another branch of diagnostics.

Would these be correct? Thanks, Keith!

 

[Keith Bradford]

They sound fairly reliable to me.

 

[kuckunniwi]

They sound fairly reliable to me.

Thanks, Keith!