单词 | prognosis |
释义 | prognosisn. 1. A prediction, a forecast, esp. of the future course of events based on present observation; the probable outcome of a process or event.In later use extended from medical sense at 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [noun] > a prediction or prophecy prenostica1393 spaea1400 prognostication?a1425 prenostication?a1450 forespeaking1480 prenosticature1490 soothsaying1535 foredestiny?1549 foresaw1555 presage1560 abodement1565 prenotion1588 predict1609 prophetical1615 prognosis1649 conjectation1652 prognosticate1652 propheticism1684 prognostic1701 oracle1713 precantation1838 1649 J. Harrison Nahash Redivivus 8 For the forming of his judgment to a right prognosis of Events..no man hath suffered, or fain, or been any way unhappy. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Prognosis, a knowing before, Fore~boding, Fore-knowledge. 1852 Daily Courier (Zanesville, Ohio) 2 Dec. A Quidnunc..is in the habit of making what the mediciners term a prognosis on every case that comes within his observation. 1860 Agitator (Wellsborough, Pa.) 10 Oct. 5/1 This is a ‘prognosis’ not very flattering to ‘Democracy’. 1872 B. 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. 1894 Edinb. Rev. July 33 It is..too soon to attempt a prognosis of English culture. 1937 Technol. Trends & National Policy i. iv. 39/1 Prognoses can be made as to inventions in the offing through a knowledge of the cumulative developments and lines of research in specific fields of technology. 1988 Classical Rev. 38 430 At the same time a cheerful prognosis is given of a speedier completion of the fourth volume. 2003 Newsweek 17 Nov. 36/3 Embracing those snippets of intelligence that support his dark prognosis while discarding others that don't. 2. Medicine. a. A prediction of the probable course and outcome of a disease or of an individual case of disease; the course or outcome itself. Also: the action or art of making such a prediction (now historical). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > [noun] > prognosis prognosticationa1400 prognosis1650 prophasis1681 prognostic1753 1650 Briefe Relation Some Affaires No. 43. 640 He should be something bold in a prognosis, specially if the Chyrurians do their part well. 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick i. i. 3 As to the Prognosis [L. prognosim], or Prognostical part concerning this Distemper: It is hard to cure. 1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 174 There will be little Difficulty in forming a just Prognosis of our Patient's Disease. 1791 P. P. Price (title) A treatise on the diagnosis and prognosis of diseases. 1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 397 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. 1881 T. H. Huxley 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. 1946 J. Hersey Hiroshima iv. 103 The two key symptoms on which the doctors came to base their prognosis, were fever and the lowered white-corpuscle count. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 15 July 136/1 The patient is not reassured by a statistical prognosis; the individual fears that he may be 100% dead, and seeking diagnosis, treatment and above all reassurance, he turns to his family physician. 2002 R. Porter Blood & Guts iv. 76 On the basis of such signs, the lesions of the diseased organs could be determined—these were the most objective guides to identifying disease, making prognoses and..devising remedies. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [noun] entacha1375 symptom1398 accidenta1400 showerc1400 prognostic?a1425 grudgingc1440 prognosticationc1475 grudge1562 symptomates1583 grutchinga1637 annotation1644 pathognomic1683 pathognomonic1704 prognosis1706 modality1911 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Prognosis..in the Art of Physick, it is the same as Prognostick Sign. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1649 |
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