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The art or act of recognizing the presence of disease from its signs or symptoms, and deciding as to its character; also, the decision arrived at.

Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.

To make a diagnosis of; to recognize by its symptoms, as a disease.

That part of medicine which has to do with ascertaining the nature of diseases by means of their symptoms or signs. His rare skill in diagnostics. Macaulay.

Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.

ining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease.

of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought. To die by the roadside of grief and hunger. Macaulay. She will die from want of care. Tennyson.

A physician who applies the rules of dietetics to the cure of diseases. Dunglison.

The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc.

A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group.

Excessive thirst produced by disease.

One who, or that which, disseminates, spreads, or propagates; as, disseminators of disease.

To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease. Shak. The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties. Buckminster.

Diseased; disordered. [Obs.] Wodroephe.

us solution of carbolic acid, borax, sodium bicarbonate, and glycerin, used as a spray in diseases of the nose and throat.

To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.

remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.

Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient.

Diseased with drops. Shak.

A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.