prognosis

3 definitions • 3 examples

a doctor's judgment of the likely or expected development of a disease or of the chances of getting better:

The prognosis after the operation was for a full recovery.

a statement of what is judged likely to happen in the future, especially in connection with a particular situation:

I was reading a gloomy economic prognosis in the paper this morning.

a doctor’s judgment of the likely or expected development of a disease, or a statement of what the likely future situation is:

After successful surgery his prognosis was good.