prodrome
IPA: prʌdroʊm
noun
- (rare) A precursor or harbinger; also a warning event.
- An introductory or preliminary book or treatise.
- (medicine) An early sign or symptom (or set of signs and symptoms) warning of the onset of a disease.
adjective
- (obsolete) Prodromous.
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Examples of "prodrome" in Sentences
- The Four Phases of a Migraine 1 Premonitory, or prodrome.
- This schizophrenia "prodrome" - the early signs - involves a troubled mental state usually found in teens and young adults.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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