Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An early symptom indicating the onset of an attack or a disease.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A forerunner.
- noun Any prodromal symptom.
- noun A precursory or preliminary treatise; a prodromus (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A forerunner; a precursor.
- noun (Med.) A premonitory symptom; a symptom or sensation experienced by a person which presages the onset of a disease or abnormal physiological event.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine an early
symptom warning of theonset of adisease
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an early symptom that a disease is developing or that an attack is about to occur
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This schizophrenia "prodrome" - the early signs - involves a troubled mental state usually found in teens and young adults.
unknown title 2009
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We and others have found that IFN-gamma and other pro-inflammatory cytokines interact with processing and production of the pathological hallmark feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD); A-beta peptide; suggesting that inflammaging may be a "prodrome" to AD.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Francisco Fernandez Brian Giunta 2008
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The news is that a constellation or "prodrome" of possible, impending serious illness has been long-recognized, and that now hopes are rising that they might trigger effective, early intervention.
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Psychosis risk is the putative prodrome of schizophrenia, minor neurocognitive is the prelude of dementia,and mixed anxiety/depression presages more clearly defined mood and anxiety disorders.
Allen Frances: Preventive Psychiatry Can Be Bad for Our Health Allen Frances 2012
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Psychosis risk is the putative prodrome of schizophrenia, minor neurocognitive is the prelude of dementia,and mixed anxiety/depression presages more clearly defined mood and anxiety disorders.
Allen Frances: Preventive Psychiatry Can Be Bad for Our Health Allen Frances 2012
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The Four Phases of a Migraine 1 Premonitory, or prodrome.
Beware, a Big Headache Is Coming Melinda Beck 2011
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Psychosis risk is the putative prodrome of schizophrenia, minor neurocognitive is the prelude of dementia,and mixed anxiety/depression presages more clearly defined mood and anxiety disorders.
Allen Frances: Preventive Psychiatry Can Be Bad for Our Health Allen Frances 2012
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Psychosis risk is the putative prodrome of schizophrenia, minor neurocognitive is the prelude of dementia,and mixed anxiety/depression presages more clearly defined mood and anxiety disorders.
Allen Frances: Preventive Psychiatry Can Be Bad for Our Health Allen Frances 2012
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Psychosis risk is the putative prodrome of schizophrenia, minor neurocognitive is the prelude of dementia,and mixed anxiety/depression presages more clearly defined mood and anxiety disorders.
Allen Frances: Preventive Psychiatry Can Be Bad for Our Health Allen Frances 2012
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Psychosis risk is the putative prodrome of schizophrenia, minor neurocognitive is the prelude of dementia,and mixed anxiety/depression presages more clearly defined mood and anxiety disorders.
Allen Frances: Preventive Psychiatry Can Be Bad for Our Health Allen Frances 2012
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