Prodrome

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prodrome \Pro"drome\, n. [Gr. ? running before; ? before + ? to
     run: cf. F. prodrome.]
     1. A forerunner; a precursor.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Med.) A premonitory symptom; a symptom or sensation


        experienced by a person which presages the onset of a
        disease or abnormal physiological event; as, the prodrome
        of an epileptic seizure.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  prodrome
       n : an early symptom that a disease is developing or that an
           attack is about to occur [syn: {prodroma}]