prognostic – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
prognostic
adj.
diagnostic, of a medical assessment; predictive, foretelling, forecasting
n.
omen, portent, presage; sign of future events, harbinger, indication of the future
Prognosis
Prognosis (
Greek πρόγνωσις "fore-knowing, foreseeing") is a
medical term for predicting the likely outcome of one's current standing. When applied to large
statistical populations, prognostic estimates can be very accurate: for example the statement "45% of patients with severe
septic shock will die within 28 days" can be made with some confidence, because previous research found that this proportion of patients died. However, it is much harder to translate this into a prognosis for an individual patient: additional information is needed to determine whether a patient belongs to the 45% who will die, or to the 55% who survive.
prognostic
Noun
1. a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle"
(synonym) omen, portent, presage, prognostication, prodigy
(hypernym) augury, sign, foretoken, preindication
(hyponym) auspice
Adjective
1. of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions
(synonym) predictive, prognosticative
(similar) prophetic, prophetical
Prognostic
(v. t.)
To prognosticate.
(a.)
That which prognosticates; a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold; an indication; a sign or omen; hence, a foretelling; a prediction.
(a.)
Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.
(a.)
A sign or symptom indicating the course and termination of a disease.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
prognostic
Synonyms and related words:
apocalyptic, augural, auguring, augury, boding, divinatory, fatidic, forecasting, forerunning, foreseeing, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretelling, foretokening, forewarning, fortunetelling, haruspical, heavy with meaning, indicative, intuitive, mantic, meaningful, monitory, omen, oracular, portent, precursive, precursory, predictional, predictive, predictory, prefigurative, prefiguring, preindicative, premonitory, presage, presageful, presaging, presignificative, presignifying, prognosticative, prophetic, sibyllic, sibylline, significant, vaticinal, vaticinatory, warning, weather-wise
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Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
