Definitions

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  • adjective pathology Describing the course of a disease before it has been diagnosed

Etymologies

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pre- +‎ diagnostic

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Examples

  • Patients may be referred to the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at any time during the process for prediagnostic counseling, prenatal diagnosis or counseling and in-utero stem cell transplantation.

    In Utero Stem Cell Transplantation 2010

  • The subjects included 410 people with a history of genital herpes symptoms before their diagnosis and 88 without prediagnostic symptoms.

    Postpartum Depression Highest in Fall, Winter Ann Lukits 2011

  • Here, scientists have been able to identify prediagnostic markers for the disease with staggering accuracy.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • However, researchers found that—as with prediagnostic lupus biomarkers—there were some patients who were positive for some of these biochemical markers but still did not develop type 1 diabetes.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • Clearly, making use of prediagnostic biomarker technology to determine who will eventually be struck with an autoimmune disease will only be useful if that technology is not only foolproof, but if we possess fail-safe and side-effect-free interventions to offer to those who are informed by their doctors that they sit at the precarious edge of disease.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • In 2005, Pietropaolo began more in-depth studies, looking at all these prediagnostic biomarkers to predict who will develop type 1 diabetes and when.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • Here, scientists have been able to identify prediagnostic markers for the disease with staggering accuracy.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • Clearly, making use of prediagnostic biomarker technology to determine who will eventually be struck with an autoimmune disease will only be useful if that technology is not only foolproof, but if we possess fail-safe and side-effect-free interventions to offer to those who are informed by their doctors that they sit at the precarious edge of disease.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • Along with Harley, Scofield is coauthor of one of the most definitive works on prediagnostic biomarkers for lupus—work that has opened up a whole new window for researchers into how early autoantibodies can portend what might be happening deep in the immune system long before a single lupus symptom rears its ugly head.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • Predicting who is going to be sick is a highly promising field of scientific inquiry, but deciding when to test for prediagnostic biomarkers and intervene with such patients promises to be dangerously tricky.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

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