Symptom vs Prognostic - What's the difference?
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(medicine) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash.
A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.
(rare, medicine) prognosis
A sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.
A prediction of the future.
* Macaulay
One who predicts the future.
Symptom is a related term of prognostic.
As nouns the difference between symptom and prognostic
is that symptom is symptom, sign while prognostic is (rare|medicine) prognosis.As an adjective prognostic is
of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.symptom
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* indication * manifestation * sign, signal * See alsoAntonyms
* Treatment of symptoms versus treatment of causeDerived terms
* symptomatology * symptomlessExternal links
* * ----prognostic
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Alternative forms
* prognostick (obsolete)Synonyms
* foretelling * predictiveNoun
(en noun)- (Parr)
- Careful observers may foretell the hour
- (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show’r.
- While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o’er
- Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more. Jonathan Swift
- The choice of a successor was no light matter. That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of the highest import.