See Also: prognostic(medicine)
prognostic(1)(dictionary)
prognostic(2)(dictionary)

prognostic(2) (iou)



prognostic noun. Also (earlier) pronostic. LME.
[Old French pronostique (mod. -ic) from Latin prognosticum, -con from Greek prognostikon use as noun of neut. of prognostikos: see PROGNOSTIC adjective, -IC.]
A thing which gives warning of something to come or about to happen; an omen, a portent. LME.
Medicine. A symptom or sign on which a prognosis is based. Formerly also, a prognosis. LME.
A prediction of the future, a forecast. M17.