medical prognosis

1. 1.

   a prediction of the course of a disease

   Synonymsprognosisprospect

   Broadermedical diagnosis

Questions about medical prognosis

What does medical prognosis mean?

medical prognosis means "a prediction of the course of a disease".

What is another word for medical prognosis?

Close synonyms include prognosis, prospect. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is medical prognosis a common word?

medical prognosis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.