(v. t.) Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.
(v. t.) Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.
(v. t.) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
(v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.
(v. i.) To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Accumulation of mesenchyme basally presages the formation of the nasal septum.
(2) At the weekend Clegg presaged some of the proposals in the Liberal Democrat package saying he wanted reform of the laws on public interest defence.
(3) Like all good Shakespearean tragedies, the Trump presidency is presaging its own collapse at the height of its glory.
(4) Reagan, after whom buildings, streets and even airports are widely named, would thus become America's Marcus Aurelius, the philosoper emperor of Rome whose death in AD 180 presaged its long, slow decline.
(5) The results suggest that manifesting once traditional sex-role characteristics for both adolescent boys and girls presages early onset and heavier adult cigarette smoking.
(6) Meanwhile, the sax parped sleazily and the monotone chug of the guitar presaged punk.
(7) Fairbairn expressed alarm after the prime minister’s conference speech appeared to presage a hardline approach to Brexit and the home secretary, Amber Rudd, appeared to criticise firms employing a large proportion of foreign workers.
(8) drug abuse in Argentina, these results presage a significant increase in the delta agent's prevalence in the immediate future.
(9) The two cases are interpreted as presaging a divergence in the paths being taken by the various Scandinavian welfare states.
(10) The intervention, tacitly backed by the US, presaged severe, ongoing human rights abuses.
(11) They presage a bad prognosis and a rapid demise; the patients survive an average of four months.
(12) Both men will now be hoping that the relatively small fall in GDP of 0.2% does not presage a further fall in the first quarter of this year, which would denote the official return of recession and represent a blow in itself to economic confidence.
(13) Impaired glucose tolerance often presages the development of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
(14) The election results were awful, but not so apocalyptic as to presage extinction.
(15) Osborne's statements in Manchester caused anger, said the source, but more for exaggerating the impact of green policies on energy bills than any presaging of policy reversals.
(16) STAI following THC presaged a poor analgesic response in this group.
(17) A study of the various characteristic features of the heart defect before operation, and of the operative findings, has allowed us to determine a certain number of factors which presage good immediate and long-term results.
(18) Recent studies have emphasized that none of the accepted intraoral landmarks used in the conventional mandibular block technique is completely reliable, nor can they presage those instances in which the lingula presents an obstruction to the needle pathway.
(19) It has been suggested that a low percentage of epithelial podocyte effacement (EPE) and a high degree of epithelial cell vacuolization (ECV) in nonsclerotic glomeruli presage FSGS, and that extensive epithelial cell vacuolization in biopsies clearly showing FSGS predicts a poor clinical outcome.
(20) The hypothesis that blockade of excitatory amino acid receptors will prevent neuronal death presages a new era in acute stroke treatment.
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.