prodromous meaning: definition, quotations

prodromous

adj

precursory.

Prodromous Clouds whose edges are fringed with Gold, comfort us with the hopes of an approaching greater Light, which when the Sun is up, do but darken the Horizon.1678, Vincent Alsop, Melius Inquirendum, page 123:
Thus we have a Day-star to tell us that day is at hand; something prodromous concerning almost all the great things promised, and looked for, as might be more largely showne, if that were my proper work.2023, Manasseh ben Israel, Menasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell, page 92:

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Altogether the Lists given int he present Chapter should be accepted as they are offered, simply in a prodromous character .2023, Thomas Twining, Technical Training, page 205:

Medicine, Sciences Pertaining to signs or symptoms that precede the onset of a disease.

Where the second eye was quite free from prodromous symptoms, Græfe has seen it frequently affected shortly after operation on the first, somewhere about 10 per cent.1865, Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society, page 46:
They were characterized in the prodromous period by the severity of the pain in the head and back, great prostration of strength, anxiety, agitation, stupor, and sometimes by delirium.1873, Armand Trousseau, Lectures on Clinical Medicine - Volume 1, page 72:

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This constitutes its first stage; one from which recovery is the genral rule, —so general, in fact, that I have never known of its being considered by any one as a condition antecedent to alveolar necrosis, and still it is uniformly prodromous to it in all except its traumatic or purely organic types.1900, Transactions of the New York Odontological Society, page 174:

Prophylactic.

Whichever view is taken, it is equally antagonistic to the rule of prodromous catheterism in forceps-delivery.1881 September, James More, “Edinburgh Medical Journal”, in The Use of the Catheter before Forceps-Delivery, volume 21, page 250:
Prodromous irrigation1928, Japanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, page 244:

noun

A sign of something to come; a harbinger.

The neglect of this has led to much difference of opinion, and a great deal of vain and idle discussion: one party affirming that the disease consists essentially in the direct and immediate impression of the morbific cause upon the susceptibilities of the living organization; the other, that this should be merely regarded as a kind of prelude, or prodromous, and that the disease is not developed , until the influence of the cause has concentrated itself upon some tissue or organ, so as to give rise to some molecular modification of its structure, by impressing upon its vitalism certain abnormal or perverted actions, by which its nutrition becomes changed.1833, Eli Geddings, “Phjysiologico-Pathological Observations on Follicular Gastro-enteritis”, in Baltimore Medical and Surgical Journal and Review, page 70:
The prodromous had rung for Oliver and was giving him a most pleasant message, as well as a promise.2013, John K. Sutherland, The Elusive Miss Wakefield, page 92: