prognose
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Etymology
Origin of prognose
First recorded in 1895–1900; back formation from prognosis
Example Sentences
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Mr. Thurber was obliged to diagnose his own case, explain its etiology, show the deep scars of two operations to repair previous fluke damage, prognose his death within a month.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is safe to prognose obstruction when the vomiting is severe; but if the nausea continues longer than three days, it must be due to eating or to drugs, to taking too much water while there is nausea, or there is more obstruction than can be accounted for by such diseases as suppurative inflammation of the cecum or appendix.
From Project Gutenberg
Did he prognose? or did he diagnose?
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