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Prognosis   /prɑgnˈoʊsəs/   Listen
Prognosis

noun
(pl. prognoses)
1.
A prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop.  Synonym: forecast.
2.
A prediction of the course of a disease.  Synonyms: medical prognosis, prospect.






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"Prognosis" Quotes from Famous Books



... double leather frame that opened like a book. Face down on the reading table beside the glass of milk, quite as he must have left it the night before, except where Sara had lifted it to dust under, a copy of Bishop's New Criminal Law, already a prognosis, as it were, of that branch of the law he was ultimately and brilliantly to bend to ...
— The Vertical City • Fannie Hurst

... than Chatterton was the worthy laureate's estimate of his young foundling; but alas! Chatterton and Kirke White both seem thinnish gruel to us; and even Southey himself is down among the pinch hitters. Literary prognosis ...
— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley

... Mr. G., aet. 40, came to consult me in October, 1875. He had suffered from neuralgic pains, more particularly in the renal region of both sides, but also in the neighboring parts, for only one week. The case being so recent, I entertained a very favorable prognosis, which subsequently was amply verified. A bath on the 12th of October and one on the 16th sufficed ...
— The Electric Bath • George M. Schweig

... Prognosis.—As regards the prognosis in yellow fever, I shall merely state, that I generally found, an early evacuation from the alimentary canal, and a disposition to diaphoresis during the first twenty-four or thirty-six hours, and its continuance during the course of the disease, to be favourable ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various

... parts of the liver, or the brain itself,—may be lost by accident, and the patient still live, the physician is taught the lesson of nil desperandum, and that if possible to arrest disease of these organs before their total destruction, the prognosis and treatment thereby acquire ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... revolution of 1905—as a result of their analysis of class relations in Russia, came to the conclusion that the triumphant development of the revolution must inevitably transfer the power to the proletariat, supported by the vast masses of the poorest peasants. The chief basis of this prognosis was the insignificance of the Russian bourgeois democracy and the concentrated character of Russian industrialism—which makes of the Russian proletariat a factor of tremendous social importance. The ...
— From October to Brest-Litovsk • Leon Trotzky

... like all the inductive sciences at their origin, was merely natural history; it registered the phenomena of disease, classified them, and ventured upon a prognosis, wherever the observation of constant co-existences and sequences suggested a rational expectation of the like recurrence under ...
— Science & Education • Thomas H. Huxley



Words linked to "Prognosis" :   forecasting, prospect, weather outlook, prognosticate, weather forecast, foretelling, medical prognosis, medical diagnosis, prediction, forecast, prognostication, financial forecast, prognostic



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