diagnostic tool , also: diagnostic device

In cases of uncertainty, time is often an important diagnostic tool.

You don't ask your diagnostic tools if it's okay for them to check a patient.

Others see the new technology more as a sales aid than a diagnostic or educational tool.

"They must have thirty diagnostic tools down there- three for each member of the team."

Another diagnostic tool is the doctor's own reaction to the patient.

In fact, talking with the patient may be the most important diagnostic tool the doctor has.

"Who would have thought you could use a laptop as a diagnostic tool?"

Making and learning to use the new diagnostic tools is expected to take about a decade.

We need to develop more diagnostic tools, which, in reality, may increase cost.

What we have so far is a general diagnostic tool.