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adj
relating to the early stages of a disease, before all symptoms have developed and when therefore accurate diagnosis is not possible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
of or relating to the early phases of a disease when accurate diagnosis is not possible because symptoms of the disease have not yet appeared
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: preclinical
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh2- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh2i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English symptomatic English presymptomatic From pre- + symptomatic.
Across languages
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