pro·drome (prō'drōm')
n., pl. -dromes or -dro·ma·ta (-drō'mə-tə).
An early symptom indicating the onset of an attack or a disease.
Oh my goodness. I find it so fascinating the words used for normal parts of birth. Prodromal labor, or false labor, both really inappropriate names for the start and stop warm up of the body getting ready for birth. The purist in me thinks it is so silly for this to have a label at all.
