(n.) One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs.
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.
Soothsayer
Definition:
(n.) One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.
(n.) A mantis.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are bad days, increasingly so for them, but then there are days like this that break new boundaries of cataclysmic play and make those of us who predicted a close series seem like end-of-the-pier charlatan soothsayers.
(2) Variations in the strength of recovery in different world regions led advertising industry soothsayer Sir Martin Sorrell to grasp for ever stranger soundbites, with the idea of a "LuVVy"-shaped global recovery his most elaborate effort.
(3) Soothsayer or not, he never imagined the pink pound would become legal tender.
(4) But analysts such as Silver, a man dubbed an oracle , a soothsayer and a savant have an interest in continuing to share these predictions.
(5) Thai authorities confirmed on Monday that a colonel in the military was also being investigated in the same inquiry as the soothsayer, but he had absconded.
(6) He thinks we shouldn't get on with cutting waste this year … I don't see him as some economic soothsayer, frankly."
(7) The actor and writer Carrie Fisher has many talents but soothsaying appears not to be among them.
(8) She says: "The soothsayers and tea-leaves readers and the so-called experts can look at coalitions, but our job is to make sure we are offering a big choice for a majority government."
(9) And then when they heard that the crowd had arrived, like a carnival with every malcontent and half-crazed soothsayer following in its wake, Martha went out into the streets to announce her brother's death to my son.
(10) Iain Duncan Smith dismissed “another doom-and-gloom scenario” from an organisation “that simply hasn’t got anything right”; his fellow pro-Brexit MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said the OBR had made “lunatic assumptions” and that “experts, soothsayers, astrologers are all in much the same category”.
(11) Thai authorities said Suriyan Sucharitpolwong, better known by his soothsayer name Mor Yong, died of a blood infection on Saturday evening, hours after he was found unconscious in his cell at a Bangkok army barracks.
(12) The so-called “evil cult” has been wreaking havoc countrywide, if state media reports are to be believed – distributing leaflets, soothsaying into megaphones, attacking police stations and extorting “donations” from gullible peasants.
(13) But just as the soothsayers who cook up future prospects from experience of the recent past had got used to peering back into gloom, reality overtook them again, and all the adjustments are now in the other direction.
(14) Google in particular preoccupies advertising's economic soothsayer.
(15) On the evidence of the first 100 days, that’s a question beyond the most talented soothsayer, but as the days pass, maybe word will emerge of a plan.
(16) Experts, soothsayers, astrologers are all in much the same category.” This is classic Rees-Mogg.
(17) Set in the 1920s, it stars Colin Firth as a magician who is sent to France to debunk the practices of Emma Stone's beguiling spiritualist – but the accuracy of her soothsaying and her impressive trickery have his cynicism challenged.
(18) On stage he looks nothing like the laconic soothsayer of a few hours ago; now he's every bit the magnetic frontman, pulling messianic poses with arms outstretched and head flung back.
(19) Turns out the soothsayers were mistaken: the Sun isn't dying, it's expanding.