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单词 prognosis
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prognosisn.

Brit. /prɒɡˈnəʊsɪs/, U.S. /prɑɡˈnoʊsəs/
Inflections: Plural prognoses.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin prognosis.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin prognosis foreknowledge, prediction (4th cent.), (in medicine) a prognosis (5th cent.) < ancient Greek πρόγνωσις (in medicine) a prognosis, in Hellenistic Greek also act of perceiving beforehand, foreknowledge, prediction < προ- pro- prefix2 + γνῶσις gnosis n., after προγιγνώσκειν to know beforehand. Compare Middle French prognosie forecast (1598; French †prognosie knowledge of the course of a disease (1842); compare French prognose knowledge of the course of a disease (1670)). Compare earlier prognostication n., prognostic n.1 1.
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.
b. A symptom or sign on which a prognosis is based; = prognostication n. 1b. Cf. prognostic n.1 1. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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).
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