Prognosis

[prɒg'nəʊsɪs] or [prɑg'nosɪs]

Definition

(noun.) a prediction of the course of a disease.

(noun.) a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop.

Inputed by Eleanor--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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.

Typist: Sean

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. (Med.) Prophasis.

Inputed by Doris

Definition

n. foreknowledge: (med.) the act or art of foretelling the course of a disease from the symptoms: the opinion thus formed.—n. Prognos′tic a foreshowing: a foretelling: an indication: a presage.—adj. foreknowing: foreshowing: indicating what is to happen by signs or symptoms.—v.t. Prognos′ticāte to foreshow: to foretell: to indicate as future by signs.—n. Prognosticā′tion the act of prognosticating or foretelling something future by present signs: a foretoken or previous sign.—adj. Prognos′ticātive.—n. Prognos′ticātor a predictor of future events esp. a weather prophet.

Edited by Clare