Prognosis

Quick meaning: Prognosis is a noun meaning A forecast of the future course or outcome of a situation based on what is presently known; a prediction.

Meaning

A forecast of the future course or outcome of a situation based on what is presently known; a prediction.

More Meanings

1. (medicine) A forecast of the future course or outcome of a disease or disorder based on current medical knowledge.

Example Sentences

If free speech is the lifeblood of democracy then the fate and the prognosis of the latter are that of the former.

I may say here that it is one of the evidences of original character, that it is apt to baffle all prognosis from a mere observer's standpoint.

Once the patient has worked through the stage of grieving at diagnosis, adjustment may be successful as therapy is begun and a prognosis is determined.

Hovvbeit it is to be noted (vvhich vve hinted in the prognoſis) that the ſvvelling doth often appear critically and profitably, and thereby the ſick are recovered of their diſeaſes; […]

Word Forms

• prognoses

Synonyms for prognosis

Depending on context, synonyms include prospect, forecast.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include forecast, prospect, proleptics, prognostic, prediction, forecasting.

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