prodromaladj.

1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 366 Their Works and Writings were the Prodromal Copies and Consonant Originals to the Nicen Creed.

1716 M. Davies Diss. Physick 7 in Athenæ Britannicæ III That Learned prodromal Protestant of the 12th Christian Century, Rupertus Tuitiensis.

1914 Amer. Anthropologist 16 512 Such was in brief the prodromal period of physical anthropology in this country.

1959 Times 28 July 10/3 His share in the prodromal negotiations and in the early days of the founding of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons was an important one.

1977 J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe (1982) xiv. 203 Nor did it answer to my sense of the early stages, the prodromal period, of a love-affair.

2003 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 Sept. b01 It's not as though we haven't had prodromal indications of what could happen if a storm like Isabel came along.

1872 Lancet 29 June 897/1 There is first a long and uncertain prodromal stage, and then the onset of fever.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 463 The more extensive prodromal erythema seen in small-pox.

1940 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 47 88 These ‘prodromal’ symptoms consist of anorexia, weakness, fatigue, loss of weight, and vague distress in the epigastrium.

1994 Guardian 14 Sept. ii. 14/5 Although the evidence is anecdotal, there is a long tradition that if you give the nosode of measles, Morbillinum, in the prodromal phase of the illness, it can reduce the impact.