prognostic
The doctor considered the patient's vital signs a positive prognostic indicator.
Adjective:
- Relating to prediction or forecasting: Describes something that serves to predict a future event or outcome, particularly in medical or formal contexts.
- Having value for making predictions: Indicates that something (e.g., a sign, symptom, or factor) can be used to foretell a likely result.
Noun:
- A sign or indicator of a future event: Something that serves as an advance indication or omen of what is to come.
- (Especially in medicine) A symptom or factor used to predict the likely course or outcome of a disease.
Adjective:
- The presence of certain proteins is a prognostic factor for disease progression.
- The study aimed to identify prognostic indicators for economic recovery.
Noun:
- The sudden drop in barometric pressure was seen as a prognostic of the coming storm.
- In clinical practice, age can be a significant prognostic for patient recovery.
"Prognostic significance": The importance or meaning of a sign or factor for making a prediction.
- The prognostic significance of the tumor's genetic markers is still under investigation.
"Prognostic value": The usefulness or reliability of something for forecasting.
- This new test has high prognostic value for determining relapse risk.
Prognosticate (verb): To foretell or predict a future event.
- It is difficult to prognosticate the long-term effects of the policy.
Prognostication (noun): The act of predicting or a specific prediction.
- His prognostication about the election results proved accurate.
Prognosis (noun): A forecast of the likely course or outcome of a situation, especially a disease.
- The doctor gave a positive prognosis for full recovery.
- Predictive (adj.): Serving to predict.
- Prophetic (adj.): Accurately forecasting the future.
- Omen (n.): An event regarded as a portent of good or evil.
- Harbinger (n.): A person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another.
Prognostic marker: A specific, measurable indicator used to predict an outcome.
- Elevated enzyme levels are a key prognostic marker for liver disease.
Prognostic model: A statistical or conceptual framework used to generate predictions.
- Researchers developed a new prognostic model to assess cardiovascular risk.
The doctor considered the patient's vital signs a positive prognostic indicator.
- of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions
- a sign of something about to happen
- he looked for an omen before going into battle