presymptomatic
Americanadjective
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Medicine/Medical. relating to the early stages of a disease or illness before symptoms appear.
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Medicine/Medical. before developing symptoms of an illness or disease.
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New data showing Zolgensma’s substantial benefits for presymptomatic children made the drug cost-effective at prices up to $1.9 million by one benchmark and up to $2.1 million by another, it said.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2025
Stage 3 is roughly equivalent to the current presymptomatic stage known as mild cognitive impairment, while stages 4, 5, and 6 are equivalent to mild, moderate and severe dementia.
From Reuters ● Jul. 16, 2023
Doing so lowers, although does not eliminate, the risk that an infected individual who’s asymptomatic or presymptomatic may unwittingly expose others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
It might be best to promote microglial activation, particularly around amyloid plaques, in the presymptomatic and early symptomatic phases of the illness.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2021
But it’s also possible that a lot of viral shedding happens when people are presymptomatic, as Caroline Chen points out in ProPublica, citing a small study of 94 patients that has not yet been peer-reviewed.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2020
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