What's the difference between betoken and prognosticate?

Betoken


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens.
  • (v. t.) To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen or known; as, a dark cloud often betokens a storm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But ‘widespread and systematic’ does betoken government control.” Crane said: “Now we have direct evidence of what was happening to people who had disappeared.
  • (2) Their suicide exploits inside Israel proper betokened the much larger meaning which the intifada carried for them: "complete liberation" to which, in his early years, Arafat had subscribed.
  • (3) The head of the ulna almost certainly betokens a range of radioulnar supination in cercopithecoids that is substantially less than is to be found in any of the hominoid genera.
  • (4) But the differences between the various conditions were small (below 20 degrees) and seem attributable to various distortions of the response wave from away from a true sinusoid, rather than betokening a difference in the ratio of velocity to length sensitivity under the various conditions.
  • (5) RFK reportedly adored JFK, while the latter was capable of snarling putdowns that surely betokened a fragile sense of self-worth pathetic in the most powerful man on the planet.
  • (6) All these properties betoken the polysaccharidic nature of M antigen.
  • (7) His recorded observations on colour blindness are detailed and precise and betoken the approach which was to characterise all his later research in chemistry.
  • (8) The proportional increase of elderly persons in most communities and increasing tooth retention among them betoken considerable change in gerodontic needs.
  • (9) As he speaks, there is, behind those crypto-Trotskyist glasses, a glint betokening political ardour.

Prognosticate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
  • (2) The data from this experience as well as others previously reported can yield prognostic indicators of survival in cases of accidental hypothermia.
  • (3) In the 12 prognostically most favourable ears the cavity was repneumatized.
  • (4) There was also no significant correlation when prognostic factors were compared to uptake in the individual organ systems except that T cell disease was associated with a significantly greater propensity for lymph node uptake.
  • (5) Second, is it possible - by combining the two technologies of endoscopy and computers - to provide an individual patient with a short-term prognostic prediction sufficiently accurate to affect patient management.
  • (6) In the univariate life-table analysis, recurrence-free survival was significantly related to age, pTNM category, tumour size, presence of certain growth patterns, tumour necrosis, tumour infiltration in surrounding thyroid tissue and thyroid gland capsule, lymph node metastases, presence of extra-nodal tumour growth and number of positive lymph nodes, whereas only tumour diameter, thyroid gland capsular infiltration and presence of extra-nodal tumour growth remained as significant prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis.
  • (7) The data obtained give evidence in favour of reflexometry to be used for early prognostic assessment of post-operative hypothyrosis.
  • (8) Contrary to expectations, it was found that psychological variables had some prognostic significance for outcome assessed by medical measures of illness severity.
  • (9) Urinary incontinence present between 7 and 10 days after stroke was the most important adverse prognostic factor both for survival and for recovery of function.
  • (10) These findings indicate the cytogenetic correlation with clinical and morphological picture, which consequently implicates the diagnostic and prognostic significance of chromosomal aspects.
  • (11) On the other hand, histological involvement of the internal mammary nodes appeared to be an important and independent prognostic factor.
  • (12) The most important single prognostic factor was the degree of displacement of the fracture at the time of injury.
  • (13) HSP-27 expression is one of the rare prognostic markers in this tumor type.
  • (14) Factors of negligible importance prognostically were: complete sterilization at mammary and axillary level after radiotherapy, persistence of florid cancer tissue at mammary level and histiocytosis of the axillary lymph nodes.
  • (15) Poor prognostic indicators included oligohydramnios (20 of 21 subsequently died), absence of caliectasis (20 of 24 died), a large amount of urine ascites (five of six died), and dystrophic bladder wall or peritoneal calcification (five of five subsequently died).
  • (16) M1 and M2 levels of marrow involvement were not prognostic among children with lymphoblastic disease.
  • (17) The literature is reviewed with respect to treatment options and prognostic factors.
  • (18) The information compiled in the computers as databases together with its capability to handle complex statistical analysis also enables dermatologists and computer scientists to develop expert systems to assist the dermatologist in the diagnosis and prognostication of diseases and to predict disease trends.
  • (19) This study analyzed the impact of prognostic variables of age, sex, histopathological diagnosis, extent of disease at diagnosis, and surgical intervention on well differentiated thyroid carcinoma and how surgical treatment, radioactive iodine, and radiotherapy influence the patients' outcomes.
  • (20) In addition, preliminary evidence needs to be confirmed that quantitative analysis of anti-p24 might be of prognostic value in the course of HIV infection.