Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A prediction of the probable course and outcome of a disease.
- noun The likelihood of recovery from a disease.
- noun A forecast or prediction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A foreknowing of the course of events; forecast.
- noun A forecast of the probable course and termination of a case of disease; also, what is thus forecast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) The act or art of foretelling the course and termination of a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine A forecast of the future course of a
disease ordisorder , based on medicalknowledge . - noun A forecast of the future course, or outcome, of a situation; a
prediction .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop
- noun a prediction of the course of a disease
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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Capital-L Life knows your long-term prognosis is death, so all it gives a rat's ass about is next week.
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She responded well, but she is uncertain whether the absence of Doxil will affect her long-term prognosis.
New Lapses at J&J's Doxil Supplier Peter Loftus 2011
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I am relieved to read that your prognosis is good. this must be a terrible stress for yourself and family to go through.
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The prognosis is that I'll be able to walk and run and ride a bicycle and play golf [again] ....
Tom Siebel On Being Gored By An Elephant As told to Steven Bertoni 2010
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This may not be a good thing for this evening's long term prognosis.
Andre Ward beats Carl Froch - as it happened! | Graham Parker 2011
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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.
Unilever Sees Small Profit Rise Simon Zekaria 2012
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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.
Robert Stavins: The Credit Downgrade and the Congress: Why Polarized Politics Paralyze Public Policy Robert Stavins 2011
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They caught the cancer early and my prognosis is great.
Is this another rule I should break? | Johnny B. Truant 2010
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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.
Robert Stavins: The Credit Downgrade and the Congress: Why Polarized Politics Paralyze Public Policy Robert Stavins 2011
bilby commented on the word prognosis
"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.
December 12, 2008