| word | prognosis |
|---|---|
| definition | (1) The chance of recovery from a given disease or condition. (2) A forecast or prophecy. |
| eg_sentence | The prognosis for a patient with chicken pox is usually excellent; the prognosis for someone with liver cancer is terrible. |
| explanation | With its prefix pro-, meaning “before,” prognosis means basically “knowledge beforehand” of how a situation is likely to turn out. Prognosis was originally a strictly medical term, but it soon broadened to include predictions made by experts of all kinds. Thus, for example, economists are constantly offering prognoses (notice the irregular plural form) about where the economy is going, and climate scientists regularly prognosticate about how quickly the earth's atmosphere is warming |
| IPA | prɑgˈnoʊsəs |
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