Dictionary entry

Prognosis

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Prog‐no″sis (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. �, fr. � to know beforehand; � before + � to know. See Know.] (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.