prodromous

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.

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.

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.

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.

Prophylactic.

Whichever view is taken, it is equally antagonistic to the rule of prodromous catheterism in forceps-delivery.

Prodromous irrigation

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.

The prodromous had rung for Oliver and was giving him a most pleasant message, as well as a promise.