a person who makes diagnoses; specif., a specialist in diagnostics
diagnostician in American English
(ˌdaiəɡnɑˈstɪʃən)
noun
an expert in making diagnoses, esp. a medical doctor
Word origin
[1865–70; diagnostic + -ian]This word is first recorded in the period 1865–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: batting average, dunk, racism, springboard, valence-ian is a suffix occurring originally in adjectives borrowed from Latin, formed from nounsdenoting places (Italian) or persons (Flavian), and now productively forming English adjectives by extension of the Latin pattern.Attached to geographical names, it denotes provenance or membership (Washingtonian), the latter sense now extended to membership in social classes, religious denominations,etc. (Episcopalian; pedestrian). Attached to personal names, it has the additional senses “contemporary with” ( Victorian) or “proponent of” (Hegelian; Freudian) the person specified by the noun base. It also occurs in a set of personal nouns,mainly loanwords from French, denoting one who engages in, practices, or works withthe referent of the base noun (comedian; grammarian; theologian)
Examples of 'diagnostician' in a sentence
diagnostician
He was an excellent diagnostician, very caring and always up-to-date in his knowledge - often even ahead of his time.