Meaning of prodromous | Babel Free

Definitions

A sign of something to come; a harbinger.

Examples

“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.”

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