gno-, gnos-, gnoto-, -gnostic, -gnosia, -gnomic, -gnomonic, -gnomical, -gnomy, -gnosia, -gnostic, -gnosis +

1. To determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis.
2. To determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: "The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza."
3. To ascertain the cause or nature of (a disorder, malfunction, problem, etc.) from the symptoms: "The mechanic diagnosed the trouble that caused the car to bread down."
4. To classify or to determine on the basis of scientific examination.

1. The identification of an illness or disorder in a patient through physical examination, medical tests, or other procedures.
2. A careful examination and analysis of the facts in an attempt to understand and explain something.
2. The identification of the nature or cause of something, especially a problem or fault.
4. A decision or conclusion reached by medical or other diagnosis: "The doctor's diagnosis was that he had appendicitis."
5. In biology, a scientific determination; a description that classifies a group or taxon precisely.
6. A determination or analysis of the cause or nature of a problem or situation.
7. An answer or solution to a problematic situation.

1. A symptom or characteristic of value in diagnosis.
2. In medicine, a device or substance used for the analysis or detection of diseases or other medical conditions.
3. With computers, a message output by a computer diagnosing an error in a computer program, computer system, or component device; a program or subroutine that produces such messages.

1. A person who diagnoses, especially a physician specializing in medical diagnostics.
2. An expert in making diagnoses; especially, a medical doctor.
3. Someone with special skills in identifying the cause or nature of a problem even in areas other than medical.

1. The art of identifying illnesses or disorders in patients through diagnosis or procedures for diagnosis; takes a singular verb.
2. That part of medicine which has to do with ascertaining the nature of diseases by means of their symptoms or signs.

Any disorder characterized by intellectual impairment; memory loss; any mental illness.

1. Determination of the nature of a disease through observation of changes in electrical irritability.
2. Diagnosis based on electrodiagnostic tests or procedures.

Knowledge of the earth.

Someone who is versed in geognosy; a geologist.

1. A science dealing with the constituent parts of the earth, its envelope of air and water, its crust, and the condition of its interior.
2. That part of geology which treats of the materials of the earth's structure, and its general exterior and interior constitution.

A collection of, or a treatise on, maxims, grave-stone sentences, or reflections.

1. An object; such as, the style of a sundial, that projects a shadow used as an indicator.
2. The geometric figure that remains after a parallelogram has been removed from a similar but larger parallelogram with which it shares a corner.

1. Intuitive knowledge of spiritual truths; said to have been possessed by ancient Gnostics.
2. Intuitive apprehension of spiritual truths, an esoteric form of knowledge sought by the Gnostics.

1. Pertaining to knowledge.
2. Possessing knowledge; especially, esoteric knowledge of spiritual matters.
3. When capitalized, pertaining to or characteristic of the Gnostics.
4. Of, relating to, or possessing intellectual or spiritual knowledge.

A member of any of certain sects among the early Christians who claimed to have superior knowledge of spiritual matters, and explained the world as created by powers or agencies arising as emanations from the Godhead.

1. A group of ancient heresies, stressing escape from this world through the acquisition of esoteric knowledge.
2. A religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches.

The doctrines of certain pre-Christian pagan, Jewish, and early Christian sects that valued the revealed knowledge of God and of the origin and end of the human race as a means to attain redemption for the spiritual element in humans and that distinguished the Demiurge from the unknowable Divine Being.