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Definition of Prodroma
1. Noun. An early symptom that a disease is developing or that an attack is about to occur.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prodroma
Literary usage of Prodroma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on clinical medicine, delivered in the Hospital Saint-Jacques, of by Pierre Jousset, Reuben Ludlam (1879)
"The diagnosis of typhoid fever; prodroma; thermometric tracings in typhoid and
inflammatory fevers, variola, pneumonia, and acute phthisis. ..."
2. On the bile, jaundice, and bilious diseases by John Wickham Legg (1880)
"prodroma. It was long ago pointed out by Ozanam that there are two ways in which
acute yellow atrophy may develope itself: one, in which grave symptoms ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1851)
"At the prodroma of menstruation. 2. During its regular establishment. 3. ...
As a symptom of the prodroma of menstruation, diarrhoea scarcely ever occurs. ..."