prognostic

[ UK /pɹəɡnˈɒstɪk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a sign of something about to happen
    he looked for an omen before going into battle
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions
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How To Use prognostic In A Sentence

  • Important negative prognostic factors in both conditions include patients older than 65 years, hypotension, and coma.
  • Both patients and physicians are most interested in disease indicators that will best predict therapeutic responses and prognostic outcomes.
  • The ability of predictors of survival to prognosticate in individual patients is, of course, limited.
  • When in a position allowing of direct examination, the contused portion of the nerve sometimes developed a palpable fusiform thickening, manipulation of which might give rise to formication in the area of distribution -- a favourable prognostic sign. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
  • Better still, stick to facts if your prognostications are prone to throw gas on a fire of rumor-mongering and doomsaying.
  • The sonograms, which prognosticated a boy, were wrong.
  • Thus, this new definition of airflow obstruction appears to impart useful prognostic information.
  • Ever since, my prognostications seemed wrong.
  • Society-wide measures of religious behavior muffle portentous change that may be occurring at the younger edge of the population, so social prognosticators just like commercial advertisers focus on trends among young adults, trying to discern which aspects of behavior are what they are because the youths are young, and which aspects are what they are because of when they are young. American Grace
  • Around this time in every midterm election cycle, the vultures of political prognostication begin hovering over incumbents in trouble.
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