prognosis
Doctor's outcome prediction
A prognosis is a forecast of how something will develop, especially a medical prediction about the likely course and outcome of a disease: The doctor said the prognosis was good.
Beyond medicine, prognosis applies to any prediction of future prospects: The prognosis for the economy remains uncertain.
The plural is prognoses.
Belief about future outcomes
- prospectPotential client or opportunity
- hopeDesire for good outcomes
- optimismTendency to expect good
- pessimismExpecting unfavorable outcomes
anticipation · guarded · favorable · unfavorable · grim · promising · bleak · uncertain
Care for an ailment
- patientAble to wait calmly
- doctorLicensed medical healer
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- remissionTemporary disease absence
relapse · survival · outcome · therapy · symptoms · clinical · pathology · disease
Prediction of future conditions
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- prognosticateForetell future events
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
- likelihoodChance something will occur
probability · estimate · anticipate · long-term · short-term · accuracy · indicator · marker
State resisting forecasts
- variabilityTendency to change
- riskPossibility of harm
- chanceLikelihood of occurrence
- indeterminateNot exactly known
speculation · ambiguity · unknown · wait-and-see · contingency · fluctuation · imprecision · provisional
expectation
Belief about future outcomes
pessimism · anticipation · guarded · favorable · unfavorable · grim · promising · bleak · uncertain · positive
treatment
Care for an ailment
remission · relapse · survival · outcome · therapy · symptoms · clinical · pathology · disease · chronic
forecast
Prediction of future conditions
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- prognosticateForetell future events
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
likelihood · probability · estimate · anticipate · long-term · short-term · accuracy · indicator · marker · modeling
unpredictability
State resisting forecasts
- variabilityTendency to change
- riskPossibility of harm
- chanceLikelihood of occurrence
indeterminate · speculation · ambiguity · unknown · wait-and-see · contingency · fluctuation · imprecision · provisional · tentative
- medical recordsmedical records, patient records, medical record, chart, patient charts
- medicinedoctor, doctors, hospital, medicine, surgery
- medical caresurgery, examination, injection, prescription, medication
- expectationsexpect, expectation, anticipate, expectancy, await
- foresightforesight, precognition, futurology, forethought, premonition
- Greek wordsalpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon
prognosishistory
Record of past events
medical history · past · retrospective · anamnesis · case history
prognosisdiagnosis
Identification of illness
treatment plan · prescription · therapy · intervention · treatment
- poor prognosis
- terminal prognosisPrediction of death