Prognosis
noun
A prediction or forecast, especially about how a disease or condition will develop in the future.
The prognosis for patients with this disease is usually good
Often appears as...
- prognosis for the disease
- prognosis of the patient
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Technical
noun
A forecast of the likely outcome or development of a situation.
The prognosis for the economy is not good based on current trends
Often appears as...
- prognosis for the situation
- make a prognosis
noun
A prediction or forecast, especially about how a disease or condition will develop in the future.
The prognosis for patients with this disease is usually good
Often appears as...
- prognosis for the disease
- prognosis of the patient
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A forecast of the likely outcome or development of a situation.
The prognosis for the economy is not good based on current trends
Often appears as...
- prognosis for the situation
- make a prognosis
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Used often in medical situations to discuss the likelihood of patients recovering or the disease progressing.
Given the current treatment, the patient's prognosis is promising.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Diagnosis
'Prognosis' refers to future outcomes, not the current diagnosis or identification of a disease.
While the diagnosis is severe pneumonia, the prognosis with treatment is positive.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
Can carry emotional impact, especially when related to serious illness or long-term conditions.
Her prognosis was grim, leaving the family preparing for the worst.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Used often in medical situations to discuss the likelihood of patients recovering or the disease progressing.
Given the current treatment, the patient's prognosis is promising.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Diagnosis
'Prognosis' refers to future outcomes, not the current diagnosis or identification of a disease.
While the diagnosis is severe pneumonia, the prognosis with treatment is positive.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
Can carry emotional impact, especially when related to serious illness or long-term conditions.
Her prognosis was grim, leaving the family preparing for the worst.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Used often in medical situations to discuss the likelihood of patients recovering or the disease progressing.
Given the current treatment, the patient's prognosis is promising.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Diagnosis
'Prognosis' refers to future outcomes, not the current diagnosis or identification of a disease.
While the diagnosis is severe pneumonia, the prognosis with treatment is positive.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
Can carry emotional impact, especially when related to serious illness or long-term conditions.
Her prognosis was grim, leaving the family preparing for the worst.
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Dr. Zombie Explains...Zom...
you present to the emergency room with the early stages of what's already recognized as a zombie outbreak then we have the opportunity to interrupt that outbreak both in the general population are also in the individual the longer we let it progress and more importantly the more frightened we get the worse the prognosis becomes for the individual as
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A tale of mental illness...
hospital on three different occasions for lengthy periods my doctors diagnosed me with chronic schizophrenia and gave me a prognosis of quote grave that is at best I was expected to live in a board and care and work at menial jobs fortunately I did not actually that grave prognosis instead I'm a
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The wonderful and...
dozens of new clinically relevant features of tumors which help doctors make a prognosis of a cancer. Very similarly, in Stanford, a group there announced that, looking at tissues under magnification, they've developed a machine learning-based system
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What makes life worth...
than their honest opinion when describing a patient's prognosis. It's an instinct born out of kindness. But researchers have found that when people better understand the possible outcomes of an illness, they have less anxiety,
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What almost dying taught...
I couldn't wrap my head around what that prognosis meant. But I understood that the reality and the life I'd imagined for myself had shattered. Overnight, I lost my job, my apartment, my independence,
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Can Primates be Human...
lacey has diabetes her blood sugar levels are too high doctor para gives her long-term prognosis let's try the next three or four weeks we'll talk and we're going to try to regulate it world
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Rediscovering ourselves...
if we were to disappear tonight nothing wouldn't missus nothing the Earth's ecosystems would be better off without us now I don't know about you but I feel sad about that prognosis there is
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The opportunity of...
is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions. In our desire to protect those we care about by giving them the cold, hard truth about their medical prognosis,
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Science didn't...
What is the prognosis? My training in pastoral counseling did not prepare me for this. Dr. Bercovitch tells us everything he knows about PXE. It's a rare genetic disorder, it's systemic,
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A playful solution to...
has fallen to the lowest level in recorded history. So, foolishly or otherwise, I decided to build my own home. But the prognosis wasn't good there, either.
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Dr. Zombie Explains...Zom...
you present to the emergency room with the early stages of what's already recognized as a zombie outbreak then we have the opportunity to interrupt that outbreak both in the general population are also in the individual the longer we let it progress and more importantly the more frightened we get the worse the prognosis becomes for the individual as
Video examples
A tale of mental illness...
hospital on three different occasions for lengthy periods my doctors diagnosed me with chronic schizophrenia and gave me a prognosis of quote grave that is at best I was expected to live in a board and care and work at menial jobs fortunately I did not actually that grave prognosis instead I'm a
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The wonderful and...
dozens of new clinically relevant features of tumors which help doctors make a prognosis of a cancer. Very similarly, in Stanford, a group there announced that, looking at tissues under magnification, they've developed a machine learning-based system
Video examples
What makes life worth...
than their honest opinion when describing a patient's prognosis. It's an instinct born out of kindness. But researchers have found that when people better understand the possible outcomes of an illness, they have less anxiety,
Video examples
What almost dying taught...
I couldn't wrap my head around what that prognosis meant. But I understood that the reality and the life I'd imagined for myself had shattered. Overnight, I lost my job, my apartment, my independence,
Video examples
Can Primates be Human...
lacey has diabetes her blood sugar levels are too high doctor para gives her long-term prognosis let's try the next three or four weeks we'll talk and we're going to try to regulate it world
Video examples
Rediscovering ourselves...
if we were to disappear tonight nothing wouldn't missus nothing the Earth's ecosystems would be better off without us now I don't know about you but I feel sad about that prognosis there is
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The opportunity of...
is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions. In our desire to protect those we care about by giving them the cold, hard truth about their medical prognosis,
Video examples
Science didn't...
What is the prognosis? My training in pastoral counseling did not prepare me for this. Dr. Bercovitch tells us everything he knows about PXE. It's a rare genetic disorder, it's systemic,
Video examples
A playful solution to...
has fallen to the lowest level in recorded history. So, foolishly or otherwise, I decided to build my own home. But the prognosis wasn't good there, either.
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Quote examples
Kent Brantly
American
Just like medicine anywhere else, I get to walk through life with people in the midst sometimes of their most difficult and challenging circumstances they've faced - a terminal diagnosis, bad news, poor prognosis - and also the most joyful times with people, like the birth of a new baby.
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Drew Pinsky
American Celebrity
Addiction has a worse prognosis than most cancers. I tell someone they have cancer and they want to be airlifted to a cancer treatment center; I tell someone they have an addiction and they're going to die and they want to argue with me about the treatment.
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Temple Grandin
American Educator
A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
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Claire Scovell LaZebnik
American Author
When our son's autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didn't even know if he'd ever learn to talk. But we found talented people to work with him and he improved, slowly at first and then more rapidly.
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Simon Schama
British Historian
The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand and total assimilation on the other. But those are very exaggerated scenarios.
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Jenny McCarthy
American Model
For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery.
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Peter Bergen
American Journalist
Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.
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Mike Gallagher
American Critic
When your spouse is given a bleak prognosis, you become an expert in soaking up every moment of every day.
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Elizabeth Edwards
American Lawyer
You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.
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Steven Cojocaru
Canadian Critic
I feel great, the prognosis is excellent.
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Kent Brantly
American
Just like medicine anywhere else, I get to walk through life with people in the midst sometimes of their most difficult and challenging circumstances they've faced - a terminal diagnosis, bad news, poor prognosis - and also the most joyful times with people, like the birth of a new baby.
Quote examples
Drew Pinsky
American Celebrity
Addiction has a worse prognosis than most cancers. I tell someone they have cancer and they want to be airlifted to a cancer treatment center; I tell someone they have an addiction and they're going to die and they want to argue with me about the treatment.
Quote examples
Temple Grandin
American Educator
A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
Quote examples
Claire Scovell LaZebnik
American Author
When our son's autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didn't even know if he'd ever learn to talk. But we found talented people to work with him and he improved, slowly at first and then more rapidly.
Quote examples
Simon Schama
British Historian
The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand and total assimilation on the other. But those are very exaggerated scenarios.
Quote examples
Jenny McCarthy
American Model
For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery.
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Peter Bergen
American Journalist
Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.
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Mike Gallagher
American Critic
When your spouse is given a bleak prognosis, you become an expert in soaking up every moment of every day.
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Elizabeth Edwards
American Lawyer
You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.
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Steven Cojocaru
Canadian Critic
I feel great, the prognosis is excellent.
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