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PROGNOSTIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sign of something about to happen
Example:
he looked for an omen before going into battle
Synonyms:
omen; portent; presage; prodigy; prognostic; prognostication
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("prognostic" is a kind of...):
augury; foretoken; preindication; sign (an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prognostic"):
auspice (a favorable omen)
foreboding (an unfavorable omen)
death knell (an omen of death or destruction)
Derivation:
prognostic (of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions
Synonyms:
predictive; prognostic; prognosticative
Classified under:
Similar:
prophetic; prophetical (foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention)
Derivation:
prognosis (a prediction of the course of a disease)
prognosis (a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop)
prognostic (a sign of something about to happen)
Context examples:
As such, estrogen receptor is a key regulator of proliferation and differentiation in mammary epithelia and represents a crucial prognostic indicator and therapeutic target in breast cancer.
(MTA3 Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The bank has an associated database that contains prognostic, staging, outcome and treatment data on patients from whom tissues were obtained.
(AIDS and Cancer Specimen Bank, NCI Thesaurus)
For tumors that overexpress CEA, technetium-99m labeled arcitumomab may be used as an adjunct diagnostic imaging tool to obtain prognostic information following resection and to monitor for recurrent disease.
(Arcitumomab, NCI Thesaurus)
The protein is localized to the surface of cells and is utilized as a prognostic marker in persons with cancers that involve white blood cells.
(Beta-2-Microglobulin Protein, NCI Thesaurus)
The most important prognostic indicator is ALK positivity, which has been associated with a favorable prognosis.
(Anaplastic large cell lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)
The accuracy of the models varied, with some showing high predictive powers, such as for percentage body fat, while others had only modest prognostic power, such as for cardiovascular risk.
(Study highlights potential for ‘liquid health check’ to predict disease risk, University of Cambridge)
One great excellency in this tribe, is their skill at prognostics, wherein they seldom fail; their predictions in real diseases, when they rise to any degree of malignity, generally portending death, which is always in their power, when recovery is not: and therefore, upon any unexpected signs of amendment, after they have pronounced their sentence, rather than be accused as false prophets, they know how to approve their sagacity to the world, by a seasonable dose.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
