What's the difference between prodrome and prodromus?
Prodrome
Definition:
(n.) A forerunner; a precursor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The calf pain prodrome of "tennis leg" requires rest and then a stretching program.
(2) Eight infants 6 months of age or younger had a prodromal viral illness followed by the rapid onset of lethargy, seizures, and coma, resulting in the diagnosis of Reye's syndrome.
(3) Twenty patients suffering from manic depressive psychosis were interviewed about the prodromes to both manic and depressive episodes.
(4) Prodromal photopsias did not closely resemble the scintillating displays of migraineurs.
(5) The lession is often associated with a prodrome of vomiting (80%).
(6) The prodromal signs of vomiting (e.g., increased heart rate and respiration) that occur concomitantly with the gastrointestinal motor correlates of vomiting have been considered autonomic indices of nausea in animals, but this has not been proven.
(7) During the prodromal period of hepatitis which followed, she was treated by acupuncture.
(8) in the prodromal phase where virus can be detected in respiratory secretion.
(9) Another also had a prodrome but never became jaundiced.
(10) On the other hand, low intelligence, abnormal primary personality, premorbid disturbances in social behavior, broken homes, prolonged prodromal stages, pneumoence-phalographically measurable atrophic or dysplastic changes in the brain ventricles as well as somatic and auditory hallucinations and predominance of hebephrenic symptoms at the onset of the illness tended to lead to an unfavorable prognosis.
(11) A subgroup of those with speech disturbances as a feature of the prodromal symptoms was also found to have relatively impaired language abilities on routine testing.
(12) Eighty-five cases had a known associated chronic illness and 111 reported prodromal symptoms.
(13) Most monkeys and humans with the lymphocyte depletion morphology fulfilled the case definitions for AIDS and SAIDS while those with follicular hyperplasia usually had 'prodromal' findings.
(14) Unusual presentations of HIV infected persons which have been seen in Africa include serially developing abscesses in pyomyositis, gall bladder diseases, pericarditis or myocarditis, diseases of the Central Nervous System (cryptococcal meningitis, toxoplasmosis, non-specific leuko-encephalitis, atraumatic paraplegia, acute psychosis or chronic deterioration in mental capacity, lymphoma of the brain), prodromal illnesses, swollen lymph nodes, herpes zoster or shingles in young adults, or tumours of the lymphatic system.
(15) One patient, after a prodrome of anemia and thrombocytopenia, developed acute leukemia 60 months after the start of chemotherapy.
(16) Since ARC is a prodrome for full-blown AIDS, these results suggest that trs may be useful as a prognostic marker for AIDS development.
(17) At the time of admission, the plasma concentrations of thrombin-antithrombin III complex and crosslinked D-dimer in the eight patients at high risk for recurrent embolization (one with prodromal embolism, three with intracardiac thrombi, and four with recurrent embolization) were 2.8 and 3.5 times, respectively, higher than those in the 14 patients without recurrence or thrombus formation.
(18) The aim of this paper was to review the clinical and conceptual implications of the studies investigating prodromal symptoms of mania, depression, and panic disorder.
(19) Patients with the prodromes made up 47.0% of all Q wave myocardial infarction and 59.4% in those without Q wave myocardial infarction.
(20) The children with RAM had a sudden onset of intracranial hemorrhage, except for one with prodromal symptoms such as vertigo or headache.
Prodromus
Definition:
(n.) A prodrome.
(n.) A preliminary course or publication; -- used esp. in the titles of elementary works.