prognosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *próder.
Ancient Greek πρό (pró)
Ancient Greek προ- (pro-)
Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃tisder.
Ancient Greek γνῶσῐς (gnôsĭs)
Ancient Greek πρόγνωσῐς (prógnōsĭs)bor.
Late Latin prognōsislbor.
English prognosis
Learned borrowing from Late Latin prognōsis (“forecast, prediction; forecast of the course and outcome of a disease”), itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πρόγνωσις (prógnōsis, “forecast of the course and outcome of a disease; (Koine) foreknowledge, perceiving beforehand, prediction”), from προ- (pro-, prefix meaning ‘before; beforehand’) + γνῶσῐς (gnôsĭs, “inquiry, investigation; knowledge”). The plural prognoses is a learned borrowing from Late Latin prognōsēs.
Cognates
* Middle French prognosie (“forecast, prediction”) (modern French prognosie (obsolete), prognose (“forecast of the course and outcome of a disease”))
* Sanskrit प्रज्ञा (prajñā, “intelligence, wisdom; judgment; knowledge”)
Inflected forms:
form: prognoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A forecast of the future course or outcome of a situation based on what is presently known; a prediction.
pos: noun
examples: I may say here that it is one of the evidences of original character, that it is apt to baffle all prognosis from a mere observer's standpoint.
Despite the positive, constructive aspects of the Beeching Report, the gloomy prognoses on B.R. which issued from so many commentators prior to its publication have left a widespread impression that the railway is an outdated concept.
The prognosis was made by taking into consideration the facts that the analog concrete had already achieved its ultimate strength by the period of 1500 days while concrete being predicted was to gain its strength limit by 1.25 time faster, that is by the period of 100 days.
If free speech is the lifeblood of democracy then the fate and the prognosis of the latter are that of the former.
We are, however, not concerned at all with the questions of whether Esperanto should be adopted as one or even the language of the European Union or the world, or whether it should be a compulsory subject in schools, nor with prognoses about whether the planned language will grow or decline, be ousted by competing planned languages, or any other questions related to phenomena which are not strictly (socio)linguistic in nature.
gloss: A forecast of the future course or outcome of a disease or disorder based on current medical knowledge.
pos: noun
examples: Hovvbeit it is to be noted (vvhich vve hinted in the prognoſis) that the ſvvelling doth often appear critically and profitably, and thereby the ſick are recovered of their diſeaſes; […]
The prognosis [of measles] is unfavourable when the child is very young, when the eruption appears before the third day, or when it suddenly disappears. […] The prognosis is favourable when the gastro-pulmonary symptoms are slight, the progress of the disease is regular, and when the skin is moist after the appearance of the exanthema.
Once the patient has worked through the stage of grieving at diagnosis, adjustment may be successful as therapy is begun and a prognosis is determined.
Related words: agnosia
agnostic
agnosticism
agnosy
diagnose
diagnoser
diagnosis
diagnostic
diagnostically
gnosis
-gnosy
prognostes
prognostic
prognosticable
prognostical
prognostically
prognosticant
prognosticate
prognostication
prognosticative
prognosticator
prognosticatory
prognosticous
prognostify
foreknowledge
precognition
Derived words: cytoprognosis
neuroprognosis
prognose
retrognosis
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