(n.) The act or art of foretelling the course and termination of a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment; as, the prognosis of hydrophobia is bad.
Example Sentences:
(1) This excellent prognosis supports a regimen of conservative therapy for these patients.
(2) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
(3) The role of magnetic resonance imaging is also discussed, as is the pathophysiology, management, and prognosis in the elderly patient.
(4) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
(5) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
(6) The diagnosis of "autism" has been used to encompass a heterogeneous group of children who may differ in etiology, clinical manifestations, prognosis, and needed treatment.
(7) Prognosis of patients with these autonomic failures is poor.
(8) Carotid artery injury seems to have a good prognosis if repaired promptly within 3 h.
(9) Improvement of its particularly poor prognosis requires therefore early screening based on reliable biological markers.
(10) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
(11) The prognosis was adversely affected by obesity, preoperative flexion contracture of 30 degrees or more, wound-healing problems, wound infection, and postoperative manipulation under general anesthesia.
(12) Further improvements in the prognosis of low birthweight infants will depend to a large extent on prenatal prevention of disease.
(13) Our findings suggest that many traditional biological features used to estimate prognosis in ALL can be discarded in favor of clinical features (leukocyte count, age, and race) and cytogenetics (ploidy) for planning of future clinical trials.
(14) The prognosis of meningococcal arthritis is excellent and joint sequelae are rare.
(15) Some abnormalities are found only in myeloid malignancies, for example, the t(8;21)(q22;q22) and rearrangements of chromosome 16q22, both of which have a good prognosis.
(16) Although histologic proof of regression is not available, this experience suggests a more favorable prognosis than previously thought possible.
(17) These lesions had an excellent prognosis with a control rate of 100%.
(18) In addition, special efforts are made to combine HIV-infected women to avoid pregnancy and childbearing, both for their own prognosis and the health of the infant.
(19) It is theoretically possible that in patients with overt CHF, drug treatment may not alter prognosis.
(20) T1 and T2 cases, with an actuarial survival of 44% at five years, had a significantly better prognosis than T3 cases (31%) and T4 cases (10%).
Prophecy
Definition:
(n.) A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.
(n.) A book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of Ahijah.
(n.) Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction.
Example Sentences:
(1) JGB: I think science fiction always has had a predictive role, and many of its prophecies have come true.
(2) He feels the need to lift the mood partly because he is concerned that talk of a return to recession could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy as tumbling consumer confidence reduces demand, increases worklessness and lowers demand.
(3) Intrusive thoughts – especially anxious ones about erectile capacity – very often become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(4) But the most worrying problem with rank and yank is it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(5) Lakota leader Crazy Horse spoke of his vision of that prophecy with the following words: Upon suffering beyond suffering, the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world.
(6) To fulfil Wenger’s prophecy about Walcott’s evolution it would make sense for him to get a clutch of games to develop his rhythm.
(7) Tobin wrote: "Despite the dire science-fiction prophecies that accompany every period of high unemployment, revival of aggregate demand has always created jobs in numbers vastly beyond the imagination of the pessimists … Structural labour market policies can make only marginal improvements."
(8) This behavior results in a "self-fulfilling prophecy".
(9) West’s novels have an astonishing record of prophecy.
(10) Her prophecy came true, with her grandson coming to London as a research fellow at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry (Barts) in 1974.
(11) They were printed cheaply on a single side of paper, which contained lyrics, tunes and woodcut illustrations, as well as news, prophecy, political or religious messages, satire and comedy.
(12) If one child does not come to school that is too high a price to pay ... and then in educational terms it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy."
(13) As with all prophecies of doom, or indeed those of an impending economic boom, we should treat such visions with caution.
(14) The message that even if you don’t like Putin, there is no alternative, has become a self-fulfilling prophecy due to the state machine that ensures no opposition forces can ever get too much oxygen.
(15) One called A Prophecy for 1973 imagines a future utopia without poverty and hunger, which seems as distant today as in 1873 when it was probably composed.
(16) But DeMoro insisted he had a meaningful chance of becoming president and dismissed the concerns as a “self-fulfilling prophecy” by Democratic party leaders.
(17) This report deals with the influence of the self-fulfilling prophecy on dental prophylaxis.
(18) In order for an awake intubation to be successful, it is absolutely essential that the patient be properly prepared; otherwise, the anesthesiologist will simply fulfill a self-defeating prophecy.
(19) This prophecy may have seemed far-fetched when first published in 1903, but it was to prove more and more compelling as the century advanced.
(20) Whatever its origins, the Bugarach prophecy has implanted itself in France's collective consciousness.