prodromal
- a symptomatic of the onset of an attack or a disease
- Last week 20 infected nurses were under quarantine, while 40 others showed suspicious prodromal symptoms.
- Infantile paralysis was a scourge chiefly because its prodromal symptoms are ignored and its after-effects ignorantly fought.
- In a 1988 paper, based on data from UCLA's experiment, Nuechterlein and one of his graduate students reported on early, or "prodromal," signs of schizophrenic relapse.