prognosis

prognosis
    n 1: a prediction about how something (as the weather) will
         develop [syn: {prognosis}, {forecast}]
    2: a prediction of the course of a disease [syn: {prognosis},
       {prospect}, {medical prognosis}]
    

Prognosis \Prog*no"sis\ (pr[o^]g*n[=o]"s[i^]s), n. [L., fr. Gr.
   pro`gnosis, fr. progignw`skein to know beforehand; pro`
   before + gignw`skein to know. See {Know}.] (Med.)
   The act or art of foretelling the course and termination of a
   disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment;
   as, the prognosis of hydrophobia is bad.
   [1913 Webster]
    

56 Moby Thesaurus words for "prognosis":
      action, actuarial prediction, apocalypse, award, cast,
      condemnation, consideration, decision, decree, deliverance,
      determination, diagnosis, dictum, doom, finding, foreboding,
      forecast, forecasting, foreshowing, foresight, foretelling,
      guesswork, improbability, omen, order, precedent, prediction,
      prefiguration, prefigurement, prefiguring, presage, presaging,
      presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, prevision, probability,
      prognostic, prognostication, projection, promise, pronouncement,
      prophecy, prophesying, prospectus, resolution, ruling, sentence,
      sign, soothsay, speculation, statistical prediction, symptom,
      vaticination, verdict, weird