Definition of Prodroma

1. Noun. An early symptom that a disease is developing or that an attack is about to occur.

Exact synonyms: Prodrome
Generic synonyms: Symptom
Derivative terms: Prodromal, Prodromic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prodroma

prodigious
prodigiously
prodigiousness
prodigy
prodine
prodition
proditions
proditor
proditorious
proditoriously
proditors
proditory
prodnose
prodnosed
prodnoses
prodroma (current term)
prodromal
prodromata
prodrome
prodromes
prodromi
prodromic
prodromoi
prodromos
prodromous
prodromus
prodrop
prodrug
prodrugs
prods

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. ..."

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