prognosis

• a prognosis is the predicted or expected outcome of the disease.
• remission is a time when symptoms are diminished or temporarily resolved
• exacerbation is a time when symptoms flare up of become worse.
• A complication is the onset of a second disease or disorder in an individual who is already affected with a disease.
• The mortality rate, aka death rate, is related to the number of people who die with a disease in a certain amount of time.
• fatal: inevitable or causing death
• lethal: something that kills