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形容詞

prodromous (not comparable)

1. precursory.
   • 1678, Vincent Alsop, Melius Inquirendum, page 123:

     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.

   • 2023, Manasseh ben Israel, Menasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell, page 92:

     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.

   • 2023, Thomas Twining, Technical Training, page 205:

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

2. (medicine) Pertaining to signs or symptoms that precede the onset of a disease.
   • 1865, Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society, page 46:

     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.

   • 1873, Armand Trousseau, Lectures on Clinical Medicine - Volume 1, page 72:

     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.

   • 1900, Transactions of the New York Odontological Society, page 174:

     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.

3. Prophylactic.
   • 1881 September, James More, “Edinburgh Medical Journal”, in The Use of the Catheter before Forceps-Delivery, volume 21, page 250:

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

   • 1928, Japanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, page 244:

     Prodromous irrigation