prognoses

Doctors' outcome predictions

Prognoses is the plural of prognosis—predictions about how something will develop, especially regarding disease outcomes or recovery prospects.

Doctors offer prognoses based on diagnosis, statistics, and experience: The prognoses for patients with early detection are generally favorable.

The term extends beyond medicine to any forecast of how a situation will unfold.

forecasting

prediction

Forecast of coming events

estimate · expectation · trajectory · likelihood · probability · scenario · modeling · trend · analysis · assessment

medical

survival

Remaining alive against odds

tumor · biopsy · staging · metastasis · chemotherapy · recovery · morbidity · mortality · malignant · benign

weather

meteorological

Of weather science

drought · flooding · trajectory · landfall · severity · tracking · advisory · warning · seasonal · precipitation

economic

recession

Prolonged economic decline

recovery · market · GDP · unemployment · fiscal · monetary · analyst · quarterly · earnings · bull

Categories
Opposites
temporal direction of analysis

prognosesretrospectives

Surveys of past work

postmortems · autopsies · diagnoses · histories · case histories

certainty vs. uncertainty

prognosesfacts

Verifiable pieces of truth

certainties · known quantities · actualities

certainty vs. prediction

prognosesdiagnoses

Medical condition determinations

verdicts · confirmations · findings · determinations · conclusions

Phrases
Family

prognosis, prognosticate, prognostic, prognostication, prognosticator, prognosticators

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