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Webster 1913 Edition

(prŏg-nō′sĭs)

Noun.

[L., fr. Gr.

πρόγνοσις

, fr.

προγιγνώσκειν

to know beforehand;

πρό

before +

γιγνώσκειν

to know. See

(Med.)

The act or art of foretelling the course and termination of a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment;

as, the

prognosis

of hydrophobia is bad

Noun.

[Gr. to know before.] In medicine, the art of foretelling the event of a disease; the judgment of the event of a disease by particular symptoms.