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Prognostic

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<B>1.</B> (adjective) In medicine, relating to the prognosis of a disease.

For example, a favorable prognostic factor.<BR><B>2.</B> (adjective) Generally, relating to a prediction.

For example, a prognostic index for the economy.

<BR><B>3.</B> (noun) In medicine, an indicator of the course of a disease.<BR><B>4.</B> (noun) Any type of prediction.<BR><BR>The word prognostic is far more often used today as an adjective than as a noun.

Prognostic is taken from the Greek prognostikos (of knowledge beforehand).

It combines pro (before) and gnosis (a knowing).

Hippocrates used the word prognosis, much as we do today, to mean a foretelling of the course of a disease.

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