prodrome

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noun

An early symptom that indicates the onset of a disease or an episode of something such as a migraine.

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β€œOther sufferers experience a migraine prodrome -- a general feeling that a migraine will strike. This usually occurs one or two hours before the headache starts.” What’s Behind the Pain of Migraines; USA Today (McLean, Virginia); Oct 2000.
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