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prognosis
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prognosis
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a. a prediction of the course or outcome of a disease or disorder
b. the chances of recovery from a disease

prognosis [präg′nō·səs]
(medicine)
A prediction as to the course and outcome of a disease, injury, or developmental abnormality.


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Indeed, his unrelenting commitment to the world and to knowledge can be best understood in the terms of an embattled contradiction between his own particular human exertions--his repeated and physical defiance of his medical prognosis, his challenges to authority and the ideas which help to sustain it--and the processes by which universal principles such as freedom, justice, and truth were placed in the service of their antithesis.
12) Mirroring the definition of political prudence and building on Hippocrates, Galen's definition of medical prognosis also uses the metaphor of the helmsman:
 
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