Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A prediction of the probable course and outcome of a disease.
- n. The likelihood of recovery from a disease.
- n. A forecast or prediction: a gloomy prognosis for economic recovery.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A foreknowing of the course of events; forecast.
- n. A forecast of the probable course and termination of a case of disease; also, what is thus forecast.
Wiktionary
- n. A forecast of the future course of a disease or disorder, based on medical knowledge.
- n. A forecast of the future course, or outcome, of a situation; a prediction.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or art of foretelling the course and termination of a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop
- n. a prediction of the course of a disease
Etymologies
- Late Latin prognōsis, from Greek, from progignōskein, to foreknow : pro-, before; see pro-2 + gignōskein, gnō-, to know; see gnō- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Surgery was performed to insert a screw, and the prognosis is the man expected to replace Jarrett Brown will be out until nearly the start of the spring.”
“Capital-L Life knows your long-term prognosis is death, so all it gives a rat's ass about is next week.”
“They caught the cancer early and my prognosis is great.”
“While commodity costs, including currency exchange fluctuations, are seen up in "mid-single digit" percentage terms this fiscal year, compared with a 15% hike last year, Mr. Huet said the volatile environment makes it hard to give a clear long-term prognosis.”
“I am relieved to read that your prognosis is good. this must be a terrible stress for yourself and family to go through.”
“However, in the face of the three long-term structural factors I've identified above — the increasing importance of primaries, continuing redistricting, and the increasing costs of electoral campaigns — it is difficult to be optimistic about the long-term prognosis for American politics.”
“This may not be a good thing for this evening's long term prognosis.”
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“She responded well, but she is uncertain whether the absence of Doxil will affect her long-term prognosis.”
“The prognosis is that I'll be able to walk and run and ride a bicycle and play golf [again] ....”
“Whatever the reason and whatever the long-term prognosis, Sports Illustrated headlines like the one above will help sway the casual sports fan.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4084 more...
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Words starting with PRO
I've noticed many, many words start with PRO and this is just a collection of them.
professional, pronunciation, Prolagus, probable, prog, proximity, profit, procrastincate, prom, pronoun, promise, proactive and 206 more...
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Words with that horrible 'gn' sound
pregnant, interregnum, impregnable, signal, signature, prognosis, ignorant, ignominious, magnum, diagnosis, designation, incognito and 37 more...
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Psycho
To see,feel, touch people as objects with emotion instead as empty shells. These objects may be hollow or shallow or solid. But it has shape which can be shaped further and polished well. With that...
egodystonic, egosyntonic, narcissism, altruism, empathy, efficacy, epigenetic, congruence, prognosis, etiology, iatrogenic, tacit and 1 more...
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Body bio- baby!
hemorrhage, prognosis, blowsabella, somatotype, ectomorphic, endomorphic, mesomorphic, labia minora, labia majora, entopic, ectopic, ectopic pregnancy and 47 more...
bilby "The cases of 100 newly diagnosed patients were presented to cancer specialists who were asked to judge when 10 per cent would die, when 50 per cent would die and when 90 per cent would die. The specialists predicted extremely well the average actual survival - about 10 months. 'Then we looked at individuals … and we were bloody hopeless,' says Tattersall, who consequently came up with a new formula.
Take the lifespan a doctor predicts - say, 12 months - then halve it and double it to arrive at a range of six to 24 months. It is fair to say, he says, that two-thirds of people will be dead within that range. But a third will not be, and Tattersall includes all this as a hopeful caveat when his patient's prognosis is otherwise dire."
- Julie Robotham, Roll of the dice for the right numbers, theage.com.au, 15 Nov 2008. Dec 12, 2008