Make 'prognosis' about the future

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Barry Smith suggests changing the definition of prognosis from:

A hypothesis about the course of a disease.

to

A hypothesis about the future course of a disease.

This would account for the fact that 'course' may refer to a completed process, 
whereas 'prognosis' is future pointing.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by albertgo...@gmail.com on 7 Mar 2012 at 3:47

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I agree it is better.

A couple quick questions:

Should the definite 'the' be used?

What is "course of a disease"? If that refers to 'disease course', why not make 
it explicit?  A disease course is a "totality" of processes which realize a 
given disease. I assume this means disease courses have parts, so this leads me 
to think something like this might be clearer:

A hypothesis about some future part of a disease course.

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Mark

Original comment by mpjens@gmail.com on 7 Mar 2012 at 5:29

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Good point Mark. I think future part of a disease course is more accurate.

Original comment by albertgo...@gmail.com on 8 Mar 2012 at 5:00

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The change has been made in the development version and will appear in the next 
release.

Original comment by albertgo...@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2012 at 7:57

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You might use prediction (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBI_0302910) - add an 
axiom that says it is the specified output of a prediction. (the definition 
could use some improvement).

Original comment by alanruttenberg@gmail.com on 29 Aug 2012 at 3:02