prognostic
IPA: prɑgnˈɑstɪk
noun
- (rare, medicine) prognosis
- A sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.
- A prediction of the future.
- One who predicts the future.
adjective
- Of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.
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Examples of "prognostic" in Sentences
- It was a gloomy prognostication.
- Everyone wants to prognosticate the Oscars.
- It is the same knowledge of prognostication.
- Among the last is a prognostication for 1594.
- He argued that he can prognosticate the future.
- Future prognostication is not a field known for credibility.
- More detail for such a sweeping prognostication would be nice.
- That's less of a prognostication and more of a valid statement.
- Prognostication for earthquakes are not precise enough to do that.
- The problem is that prognostication is associated with the earthquake itself.
- Ray KK, Morrow DA, Sabatine MS, Shui A, Rifai N, et al. (2007) Long-term prognostic value of neopterin: a novel marker of monocyte activation in patients with acute coronary syndrome.
- Consequently a sacrament is a sign that is both a reminder of the past, i.e. the passion of Christ; and an indication of that which is effected in us by Christ's passion, i.e. grace; and a prognostic, that is, a foretelling of future glory.
- In the height of this charming exercise, it entered my mind to make a kind of prognostic, that might calm my inquietude; I said, "I will throw this stone at the tree facing me; if I hit my mark, I will consider it as a sign of salvation; if I miss, as a token of damnation."
- And after struggling for several years with determining their own patients' prognoses, a group of physicians at the University of California in San Francisco set out to collect and study all the research that had been done on so-called prognostic indexes, tools that help with determining general prognosis in older patients.
- He finds it hard to forget that until recently all manner of climatic conditions were associated with phases of the moon; that not so very long ago showers of falling-stars were considered "prognostic" of certain kinds of weather; and that the "equinoctial storm" had been accepted as a verity by every one, until the unfeeling hand of statistics banished it from the earth.
- However, one thing is certain, researchers say: Fatigue has been shown to have independent long-term prognostic implications in patients with heart failure, suggesting that fatigue needs to be effectively evaluated not only because symptom alleviation is a target for treatment, but also because of the potential for the treatment of fatigue to influence the prognosis in patients with heart failure.