Prognosis vs Synopsis - What's the difference?
prognosis | synopsis |
(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 brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work.
(Orthodoxy) A prayer book for use by the laity of the church.
As nouns the difference between prognosis and synopsis
is that prognosis is (medicine) a forecast of the future course of a disease or disorder, based on medical knowledge while synopsis is synopsis.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.