prodromus

English edit

Noun edit

prodromus (plural prodromuses or prodromi)

(medicine) A prodrome; an early symptom.
(archaic) A preliminary course or publication; used especially in the titles of elementary works.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prodromus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)