presymptomatic

1. 1.

   of or relating to the early phases of a disease when accurate diagnosis is not possible because symptoms of the disease have not yet appeared

   Synonymspreclinical

Questions about presymptomatic

What does presymptomatic mean?

presymptomatic means "of or relating to the early phases of a disease when accurate diagnosis is not possible because symptoms of the disease have not yet appeared".

How many syllables are in presymptomatic?

presymptomatic has 5 syllables and divides as pre-symp-to-ma-tic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for presymptomatic?

Close synonyms include preclinical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is presymptomatic a common word?

presymptomatic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.