Meaning

precursory..

Definitions by Sense

1. precursory.
2. (medicine) Pertaining to signs or symptoms that precede the onset of a disease.
3. Prophylactic.
4. A sign of something to come; a harbinger.

Example Sentences

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.

Altogether the Lists given int he present Chapter should be accepted as they are offered, simply in a prodromous character .

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.

This constitutes its first stage; one from which recovery is the genral rule, —so general, in fact, that I have never known of its being considered by any one as a condition antecedent to alveolar necrosis, and still it is uniformly prodromous to it in all except its traumatic or purely organic types.

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

Prodromous irrigation

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