Present participle of diagnosticate; the act of diagnosing using the older verb form.
From 'diagnosticate' with the present participle suffix '-ing,' rarely used in modern medical language.
While 'diagnosticating' sounds funny to modern ears, it was the proper formal term in 18th and 19th-century medicine—language is always evolving!
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