The general symptoms, with the exception of the fever, do not greatly differ from those common to the prodromal stage.
Simple bleeding from the nose, not associated with the hemorrhagic diathesis, is not an uncommon accompaniment of the prodromal stage, and is rarely a dangerous symptom--rather the contrary.
I believe that convulsions in the prodromal stage are much more common than available statistics would have us believe; at least, this is my own experience.
On the second day of the prodromal stage the fever suffers a marked remission, or may even entirely disappear, to again rise in the evening.
If there be a prodromal stage of the disease, certainly in the vast majority of the little patients it cannot be recognized.
This prodromal stage affords no indication of the type of disease to follow, and may last for days, months, or even years, with greater or less intervals and intensity.
Fugue in a motor cyclist, with prodromal fatigue and subsequent delusions--recovery in six weeks.
Of all the prodromal signs, headache is the most striking.
Following or along with precursory symptoms denoting general systemic disturbance, or independently of any prodromal indications, a hyperæsthetic condition, in localized areas or more or less general, is observed.
The prodromal symptoms, of an irregular malarial or typhoid type, with associated rheumatic and muscular pains, may last for weeks or several months, usually abating when eruption presents.
Most of the cases during the prodromal stage are sullen, morose or suspicious, and indifferent to their friends and surroundings.
At the end of the prodromal stage there most usually occurs an attack of acute mania of a furious impulsive kind.
During the prodromal stage of such conditions as mania and melancholia the digestive functions of the stomach and intestine are almost or completely in abeyance.
Various divisions have been proposed to mark the type of the symptoms: thus, the icteric period embraces the prodromal symptoms with jaundice; the toxaemic period is that stage characterized by profound nervous disturbances.
There may be no prodromal period, however; without any preliminary symptoms the patient is suddenly seized with delirium and passes into a condition of coma and insensibility, or the first evidence of serious illness may be convulsions.
As acute yellow atrophy comes on as an ordinary catarrhal jaundice, it is impossible to distinguish it from the latter affection during the prodromal period.
In typhoid fever there is a less sudden onset, with prodromal debility, anaemia, indigestion, and nocturnal fever.
Ozonam has divided the symptoms into those of the prodromal period and those of the serious stage, the latter being subdivided into the symptoms of excitation and those of collapse.
It is probable, however, that in even the most sudden cases mild prodromal symptoms had occurred, but were overlooked.
An apparently healthy young lady suddenly fell into an abnormally long and deep sleep--it is said without prodromal symptoms.
Furthermore, these prodromal eruptions of variola are of extremely evanescent character and usually disappear within eight or ten hours.
The intense headache, vertigo, delirium, and coma of meningitis, especially meningitis of the convexity without localizing symptoms, may be mistaken for severe prodromalsymptoms of smallpox.
One man may steal under the influence of the prodromal stage of paresis who has been previously of high moral character.
Sometimes the stupor is preceded by convulsions, at other times by a prodromalstage of general nervousness.
In still other cases, unpleasant delusions and elementary hallucinations precede the stupor, which may follow immediately after this prodromal state or may be again preceded by a short attack of mania with clouded consciousness.
The prodromal (fore-running) symptoms are frequently present and may begin several days before the convulsion occurs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prodromal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: foreboding; forewarning; portentous; precautionary; precursory; preliminary; premonitory
