prodrome

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pro=drome

CIDE DICTIONARY

prodrome, n. [Gr. running before; before + to run: cf. F. prodrome.].

•  A forerunner; a precursor.  [1913 Webster]
•  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]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

prodrome, n.
1 a preliminary book or treatise.
2 Med. a premonitory symptom.

Derivative

prodromal adj. prodromic adj.

Etymology

F f. mod.L f. Gk prodromos precursor (as PRO-(2), dromos running)

ROGET THESAURUS

prodrome

Precursor

N precursor, antecedent, precedent, predecessor, forerunner, vancourier, avant-coureur, pioneer, prodrome, prodromos, prodromus, outrider, leader, bellwether, herald, harbinger, foreboding, dawn, avant-courier, avant-garde, bellmare, forelooper, foreloper, stalking-horse, voorlooper, voortrekker, prelude, preamble, preface, prologue, foreword, avant-propos, protasis, proemium, prolusion, proem, prolepsis, prolegomena, prefix, introduction, heading, frontispiece, groundwork, preparation, overture, exordium, symphony, premises, prefigurement, omen, precursory, prelusive, prelusory, preludious, proemial, introductory, prefatory, prodromous, inaugural, preliminary, precedent, a precedent embalms a principle.