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‖ prognosis|prɒgˈnəʊsɪs|
Pl. -oses |-ˈəʊsiːz|.
[L. prognōsis, a. Gr. πρόγνωσις a recognizing beforehand, foreknowledge, in medicine a prognosis, f. προγιγνώσκειν to know beforehand: see pro-2 and gnosis. In F. prognose.]
1. Med. A forecast of the probable course and termination of a case of disease; also, the action or art of making such a forecast.
1655Culpepper Riverius i. i. 3 As to the Prognosis, or Prognostical part concerning this Distemper: It is hard to cure. 1741Monro Anat. (ed. 3) 174 There will be little Difficulty in forming a just Prognosis of our Patient's Disease. 1805Med. Jrnl. XIV. 397, I had arrived to that certainty of prognosis, that I could have insured the life of an individual by the treatment I recommended, and his death by any other. 1881Huxley in Nature 11 Aug. 343/1 Pathology..was merely natural history; it registered the phenomena of disease, classified them, and ventured upon a prognosis, wherever the observation of constant co-existences and sequences, suggested a rational expectation of the like recurrence under similar circumstances.
¶b. A symptom: = prognostic n.1 3. Obs.
1706Phillips (Kersey), Prognosis..in the Art of Physick, it is the same as Prognostick Sign.
2. gen. Prognostication, anticipation.
1706Phillips (Kersey), Prognosis, a knowing before, Fore⁓boding, Fore-knowledge. 1872B. Harte Heiress of Red Dog (1879) 54 It is one of the evidences of original characters that it is apt to baffle all prognosis from a mere observer's standpoint. 1894Edin. Rev. July 33 It is..too soon to attempt a prognosis of English culture. |