PROGNOSTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prognostic mean? 

• PROGNOSTIC (noun)
  The noun PROGNOSTIC has 1 sense:

1. a sign of something about to happen

  Familiarity information: PROGNOSTIC used as a noun is very rare.

• PROGNOSTIC (adjective)
  The adjective PROGNOSTIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions

  Familiarity information: PROGNOSTIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROGNOSTIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sign of something about to happen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

omen; portent; presage; prodigy; prognostic; prognostication

Context example:

he looked for an omen before going into battle

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)

• PROGNOSTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions

Synonyms:

predictive; prognostic; prognosticative

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 

Used as a prognostic indicator of disease progression.

(HIV-1 Load, NCI Thesaurus)

Further, it has been demonstrated to have an inhibitory effect on non-small-cell lung cancer development and is currently being investigated as a prognostic biomarker for the disease.

(DNAJB4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Hypercalcemia generally develops as a late complication of malignancy; its appearance has grave prognostic significance.

(Hypercalcemia of Malignancy, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a factor-based system that produced three prognostic groups; good prognosis, intermediate prognosis, and poor prognosis.

(International Germ Cell Consensus Classification, NCI Thesaurus)

The presence of perineural invasion by malignant tumor cells may represent a poor prognostic factor.

(Perineural Invasion, NCI Thesaurus)

The most significant prognostic factors are the size of the tumor and the lymph nodes status.

(Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Jane was therefore obliged to go on horseback, and her mother attended her to the door with many cheerful prognostics of a bad day.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

May also be a good prognostic marker, with patients with high serum levels of the marker having shorter disease-free survival.

(CYFRA 21-1, NCI Thesaurus)

The collection is particularly well-suited for validation studies of diagnostic and prognostic markers.

(Cooperative Breast Cancer Tissue Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

In human pathology, settings where this term is utilized may include prognostic implications; e.g., more favorable prognosis and minimal metastatic potential compared to greater extents of invasion.

(Microinvasive Carcinoma of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)