adj
Meaning 1
Prodromous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
prodrome
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US: /ˈpɹoʊˌdɹoʊm/
noun
Meaning 2
A precursor or harbinger; also a warning event.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
An introductory or preliminary book or treatise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- (archaic)
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: prodromus
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
An early sign or symptom (or set of signs and symptoms) warning of the onset of a disease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
an early symptom that a disease is developing or that an attack is about to occur
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: prodroma
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: symptom
History
Etymology
Probably by analogy with syndrome (pro- + -drome), but consistent with Ancient Greek προδρομή (prodromḗ, “running forward, sally, skirmish”).
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: уводна статия (uvodna statija) — introductory book or treatise
- Portuguese: preâmbulo — introductory book or treatise
- Bulgarian: предшестващ симптом (predšestvašt simptom) — medicine: early sign or symptom
- Catalan: pròdrom — medicine: early sign or symptom
- Dutch: prodroom — medicine: early sign or symptom
- Finnish: esioire — medicine: early sign or symptom
- French: prodrome — medicine: early sign or symptom
- German: Prodrom — medicine: early sign or symptom
- Hungarian: prodróma — medicine: early sign or symptom
- Ido: prodromo — medicine: early sign or symptom
- Indonesian: prodromus — medicine: early sign or symptom
- Indonesian: bakat penyakit — medicine: early sign or symptom
- Italian: prodromo — medicine: early sign or symptom
- Japanese: 前駆症状 (zenku-shōjō) — medicine: early sign or symptom
- Japanese: 徴候 (chōkō) — medicine: early sign or symptom
- Norwegian Bokmål: prodrom — medicine: early sign or symptom
- Occitan: prodròme — medicine: early sign or symptom
- Portuguese: pródromo — medicine: early sign or symptom
- Spanish: pródromo — medicine: early sign or symptom