What does prognostic mean?

Definitions for prognostic
prɒgˈnɒs tɪkprog·nos·tic

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prodigyadjective

    a sign of something about to happen

    "he looked for an omen before going into battle"

  2. predictive, prognostic, prognosticativeadjective

    of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions

Wiktionary

  1. prognosticnoun

    prognosis

  2. prognosticnoun

    A sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.

  3. prognosticnoun

    A prediction of the future.

  4. prognosticnoun

    One who predicts the future.

  5. prognosticadjective

    Of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.

  6. Etymology: From prognosticus, from προγνωστικός, from πρό- + γνωστικός, from γιγνώσκω.

ChatGPT

  1. prognostic

    A prognostic is a prediction or forecast about the likely course or outcome of a disease, condition, or progression of a situation. It can also refer to an indication or sign of a future event. In medicine, it provides an assessment of the expected development and outcome of a patient's disease.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Prognosticadjective

    indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs

  2. Prognosticadjective

    that which prognosticates; a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold; an indication; a sign or omen; hence, a foretelling; a prediction

  3. Prognosticadjective

    a sign or symptom indicating the course and termination of a disease

  4. Prognosticverb

    to prognosticate

  5. Etymology: [Gr. prognwstiko`n. See Prognosis.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of prognostic in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of prognostic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of prognostic in a Sentence

  1. Eric De Jonge:

    That's a really good prognostic sign for his recovery, if he was doing carpentry in October before the major event, I think it's likely that he could regain that function.

  2. Brooks Gump:

    Even though they're not dying from that cardiac injury, something about that biomarker is providing some prognostic value beyond other risk factors that were controlled, so it could still be important in terms of identifying high-risk patients that enter the hospital with Covid-19.

  3. Lisa Moreno-Walton:

    And there should not be, the predictive model can be very different for different diseases, and physicians need to decide based on each disease and each prognostic factor based on what is currently known about each specific disease and its course.

  4. Professor Ahn:

    I believe using prognostic factors of severe COVID-19 patients will provide an opportunity for physicians to offer those risk-high patients with the best medical care from the early stage of the disease.

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