PROGNOSIS

(plural prognoses), prognostication [noun] [C] [formal] - a doctor's judgment of the likely or expected development of a disease or of the chances of getting better or, more generally, a statement of what is judged likely to happen in the future, esp. in connection with a particular situationThe prognosis after the operation was for a full recovery.I was reading a gloomy economic prognosis in the paper this morning.