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Definition: Prodrome |
ProdromeNoun1. An early symptom that a disease is developing or that an attack is about to occur. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Prodrome \Pro"drome\, noun. [Greek expression running before; before to run: compare to the French expression prodrome.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: ProdromeSynonym: prodroma (n). (additional references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Precursor | Noun: 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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Prodrome |
| English words defined with "prodrome": Prodromus. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The prodrome phase signals that an episode of nausea and vomiting is about to begin. (references) | |
Sometimes taking medicine early in the prodrome phase can stop an episode in progress. (references) | ||
The typical prodrome consists of fever, chills, myalgia, headache, and gastrointestinal symptoms. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
prodrome | 10 |
herpes prodrome | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "prodrome"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | увод (exordium, introduction, lead up, preamble, preliminary, prelude, prelusion, proem, prolegomena, prolusion), въведение (introduction, prelude), продром, предшествуващ симптом. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | prodrom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | prodromen, prodomi, voorbode (herald, indication, omen, portent, precursor, presage, sign). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | prodromi, prodromaalioire, esioire, ennakko-oire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prodrome. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Prodromalzeichen, Prodromalerscheinung, Prodrom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρόδρομο σύμπτωμα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | prodromo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | odromepray pródromo. (various references) pródromo. (various references) вступна частина, вступ (accedence, accession, admission, entry, exordium, foreword, induction, introduction, opening, overture, prelude, prelusion), продром. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prodrome": prodromes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-m-o-o-p-r-r" | |
-2 letters: dormer, dorper, moored, poorer, romped, romper, roomed, roomer. | |
-3 letters: doper, droop, mooed, moped, moper, morro, order, ormer, pedro, pored, proem, promo, repro, rodeo, romeo, roped, roper. | |
-4 letters: demo, derm, doer, dome, doom, door, dope, dore, dorm, dorp, dorr, drop, mode, mood, moor, mope, more, odor, omer, oped, ordo, perm, poem, pome, pood, poor. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-m-o-o-p-r-r" | |
+1 letter: prodromes, protoderm. | |
+2 letters: compradore, protoderms. | |
+3 letters: compradores. | |
+4 letters: outperformed, overpromised, overpromoted. | |
+5 letters: moderatorship, overprogramed. | |
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