1The likely course of a medical condition.

1. 1.1 An opinion, based on medical experience, of the likely course of a medical condition.
   it is very difficult to make an accurate prognosis

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Finally, providing an accurate prognosis to a patient is crucial in deciding how aggressive a treatment should be used.
   • These conditions must be differentiated early to provide the patient with optimal treatment and accurate prognosis.
   • Her parents could not accept the medical diagnosis and prognosis.
   • This makes diagnosis and prognosis based on genetic abnormalities difficult for most malignancies.
   • If a concussion is managed appropriately, the prognosis for complete recovery is good.
   • Accurate diagnosis is crucial for obtaining an accurate prognosis as well as assigning appropriate treatment for the disease.
   • Therefore, prognosis is often based on a presumptive or theoretical argument and/or past clinical experience.
   • Generating an accurate prognosis is a difficult task under the best of conditions.
   • A biopsy was done and the initial prognosis was optimistic.
   • Treatment plans and prognosis also are based on the tumor's stage or extent of growth.
   • The doctors' prognosis has been supported by her recent competition results.
   • The difference between chance and forecast cases is only a difference of degree, but in the latter case the medical prognosis is more likely to be correct.
   • Traditionally, physicians have estimated prognosis using their clinical experience.
   • We would be left with only anecdotal information on which to base prognosis and treatment for many common cancers and we would know much less about many common diseases.
   • They seem not to appreciate that patients may want to be given as accurate a prognosis as possible despite knowing that effective treatment may not be available if more widespread disease is diagnosed.
   • Accurate diagnosis of EES is important for establishing a prognosis and treatment planning.
   • It is very difficult for me to give an accurate prognosis.
   • These questions are required to be answered with a medical opinion and a prognosis taking into account the plaintiff's injuries and the degree of his recovery.
   • Any mole that is suggestive of melanoma requires an excisional biopsy, primarily because prognosis and treatment are based on tumor thickness.
   • One-third of patients will develop renal failure, which is associated with the worst prognosis for survival.

   Synonyms

   opinion, judgement, verdict, pronouncement, conclusion, interpretation
2. 1.2 A forecast of the likely outcome of a situation.
   gloomy prognoses about overpopulation

   Example sentencesExamples

   • They require highly skilled workforces and have a good longterm prognosis.
   • Data collected from twenty-seven countries in the region project a gloomy prognosis.
   • With so many matches being lost to flooding and the prognosis that the situation is likely to get worse in the short term, one answer to the problem of suitable venues for matches might be to use canals.
   • The Commonwealth will not collapse today, and the prognosis, based on Vermont's experience, is good.
   • The gloomy prognosis makes some sense because office rents and vacancies are traditionally trailing indicators of the broader economy.
   • Finally he pointed out that history provides a gloomy prognosis.
   • To date, there is also little evidence to support this more grim prognosis.
   • The report emphasizes that the pessimistic prognoses of some critics that the initiatives would damage competitiveness have been dashed.
   • This isn't the first time Medicare has been given a gloomy prognosis.
   • Of course prognoses of the future of religion are based on what you imagine to be true religion.
   • The good news is that while a gloomy prognosis for European manufacturing is unfolding, we are by no means in the initial stages of a stagflationary impulse.
   • Given such gloomy prognoses, it's surprising how defiant and upbeat the small army of programmers working to bring alternative fare to their audiences seem to be.
   • This rather gloomy prognosis has not been entirely repudiated by critics.
   • Markets remained skittish and nervous, always ready to believe the latest scare story or gloomy prognosis.
   • He gave the Cabinet a deeply gloomy prognosis about the effects of prolonged conflict on an already stuttering world economy.
   • It is difficult to imagine executives at the Daily Mail or the Sun delivering such a gloomy prognosis - or setting such unambitious targets.
   • At the NCB event RBS stressed that it did not accept the gloomy prognosis for the Irish economy that is prevalent in the British media.

   Synonyms

   forecast, prediction, projection, prognostication, prophecy

   rare prognostic