Crossword clues for prognosis
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prognosis \Prog*no"sis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to know beforehand; ? before + ? to know. See Know.] (Med.) The act or art of foretelling the course and termination of a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment; as, the prognosis of hydrophobia is bad.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "forecast of the probable course of a disease," from Late Latin prognosis, from Greek prognosis "foreknowledge," also, in medicine, "predicted course of a disease," from stem of progignoskein "come to know beforehand," from pro- "before" (see pro-) + gignoskein "come to know" (see gnostic). General (non-medical) use in English from 1706. A back-formed verb prognose is attested from 1837. Related: Prognosed; prognosing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medicine English) A forecast of the future course of a disease or disorder, based on medical knowledge. 2 A forecast of the future course, or outcome, of a situation; a prediction.
WordNet
n. a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop [syn: forecast]
a prediction of the course of a disease [syn: prospect, medical prognosis]
[also: prognoses (pl)]
Wikipedia
Prognosis ( Greek: πρόγνωσις "fore-knowing, foreseeing") is a medical term for predicting the likely outcome of one's current standing. When applied to large statistical populations, prognostic estimates can be very accurate: for example the statement "45% of patients with severe septic shock will die within 28 days" can be made with some confidence, because previous research found that this proportion of patients died. However, it is much harder to translate this into a prognosis for an individual patient: additional information is needed to determine whether a patient belongs to the 45% who will die, or to the 55% who survive.
A complete prognosis includes the expected duration, the function, and a description of the course of the disease, such as progressive decline, intermittent crisis, or sudden, unpredictable crisis.
Prognosis is a doctor's prediction about a disease.
Prognosis may also refer to:
- Prediction, a statement or claim that a particular event will occur in the future
- Prognostics, an engineering discipline focused on predicting the future condition or estimating remaining useful life of a component and/or system of components
- Precognition, the claimed psychic ability to perceive information about future places or events before they happen
- Fortune-telling, predicting the future, usually of an individual, often commercially
- Divination, the alleged practice of ascertaining information from supernatural sources
Usage examples of "prognosis".
The prognosis in traumatic anosmia is generally bad, although there is a record of a man who fell while working on a wharf, striking his head and producing anosmia with partial loss of hearing and sight, and who for several weeks neither smelt nor tasted, but gradually recovered.
France, the child was hydrocephalic and the prognosis was that it could not live long.
I would say the prognosis is poor unless the child, by the time he is a preadolescent, receives intensive treatment, so he can understand the source of his murderous feelings and further understand that despite his past, he can have a choice about his future.
Some of their observations, methods of treatment, diagnoses and prognoses are so similar to those in the Smith Papyrus that it could be reasonably inferred that much of their knowledge was gathered from it and other scrolls of ancient wisdom held in the great libraries of Egypt.
I would call both their long-term prognoses good, but neither will be fit to return to their military duties for at least a year.
There was scant mention of treatment plans, prognoses, stress histories--anything that could be considered medically or psychologically relevant.
SF writers have generally dodged the long-term prognoses Ward and Brownlee outline, although much of their material has been known to scientists for decades.
A pacemaker threaded into her heart from a cutdown in her groin restored a heartbeat of sorts, but the prognosis was not good.
Still, no matter how correct my prognoses, once they have been advanced in the guise of literary fiction, they must no longer be regarded as part and parcel of futurological research.
Dengar had felt his own hopes falling as he had listened to Boba Fett's bleak prognosis.
She tore off the final sheet and bundled the whole screed up, settling herself first in a chair before reading any The first, from Lusena, had arrived just after she had left the cottage for the Miraki's journey and announced the triumphant arrival of twin girls and the prognosis of a speedy recovery of their mother from a prolonged and complicated labor.
A fourteen-year-old boy diagnosed with acute leukemia, by then a treatable disease with an excellent prognosis for remission.
Claire Wentworth in his office at Brookfield Hospital, about the prognosis for her daughter who was suffering an overdose of Quaalude.
This prognosis held for about 72 hours, which was time enough for almost everybody in Washington to start gearing down for an endless summer -- a humid nightmare of booze, sweat and tension, of debate in the House, delay in the courts and finally a trial in the Senate that might drag on until Christmas.
Leading brands vanished, industry leaders retreated, technology gurus bemoaned yet another missed prognosis - that e-books will dethrone print books.