Associations to the word «Prognosis»

Wiktionary

PROGNOSIS, noun. (medicine) A forecast of the future course of a disease or disorder, based on medical knowledge.
PROGNOSIS, noun. A forecast of the future course, or outcome, of a situation; a prediction.

Dictionary definition

PROGNOSIS, noun. A prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop.
PROGNOSIS, noun. A prediction of the course of a disease.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky