Sentences with phrase «prodromal precursors»

In considering these findings, the authors suggest that «persistent childhood insomnia may represent subclinical, prodromal precursors of anxiety, perhaps reflecting the beginning of the presleep cognitive arousal and hypervigilance that can lengthen sleep onset and disrupt deep sleep and that also have been theorized to underlie the development of anxiety» (Armstrong et al. 2014, p. 907).

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Prodromal comes from the Greek word meaning precursor, and even though it only results in minimal cervical dilation, it's considered an early stage of true labor — not false labor (Source).