Prognosis vs Null - What's the difference?
prognosis | null |
(medicine) A forecast of the future course of a disease or disorder, based on medical knowledge.
* 1861, John Neill, Francis Gurney Smith, An Analytical Compendium of the Various Branches of Medical Science , Blanchard and Lea, page 858,
* 1987, Constance S. Kirkpatrick, Nurses' Guide to Cancer Care , Rowman and Littlefield, ISBN 0847675009, page 132,
A forecast of the future course, or outcome, of a situation; a prediction.
* 2008, Paul Fairfield, Why Democracy? , SUNY Press, ISBN 0791473155, page 123,
* 2000, Guy R. Woolley, J. J. J. M. Goumans, P. J. Wainwright, Waste Materials in Construction , Elsevier, ISBN 0080437907, page 19,
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between prognosis and null
is that prognosis is (medicine) a forecast of the future course of a disease or disorder, based on medical knowledge while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.prognosis
English
Noun
(prognoses)- The prognosis is unfavourable when the child is very young, when the eruption appears before the third day, or when it suddenly disappears.
- Once the patient has worked through the stage of grieving at diagnosis, adjustment may be successful as therapy is begun and a prognosis is determined.
- If free speech is the lifeblood of democracy then the fate and the prognosis of the latter are that of the former.
- The prognosis was made by taking into consideration the facts that the analog concrete had already achieved its ultimate strength by the period of 1500 days while concrete being predicted was to gain its strength limit by 1.25 time faster, that is by the period of 100 days.
Derived terms
* prognostic * prognosticate * prognosticationReferences
* 2005, Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised) , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198610572 * 1998, The Dorling Kindersley Illustrated Oxford Dictionary , Dorling Kindersley Limited and Oxford University Press, ISBN 0751311103, page 654 * 2007, Ed. Elizabeth A. Martin, Concise Medical Dictionary , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192806971 ----null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.