pre-, prae-

Occurring before the proper time of normal maturity.

Preceding and preparing for a regular medical course of study, as a premedical education.

A drug used for premedication.

Preliminary medication, particularly to produce narcosis prior to inhalation of an anesthesia.

Occurring before menstruation.

The period immediately preceding a menstrual period.

To merit or deserve beforehand.

1. A proposition upon which an argument is based or from which a conclusion is drawn.
2. In logic: One of the propositions in a deductive argument; either the major or the minor proposition of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.
3. The preliminary or explanatory statements or facts (premises) of a document, as in a deed.
4. Land and the buildings on it; a building or part of a building (premises).
5. To state in advance as an introduction or explanation.
6. To state or assume as a proposition in an argument.
7. Etymology: from Middle English premisse, from Old French which came from Medieval Latin praemissa (propositio), "the proposition" or "put before"; from Latin, feminine, past participle of praemittere, "to set in front"; prae- or pre-, "before" + mittere, "to send".

Occurring before the development of the signs or symptoms of a disease.

1. Terminated abruptly, or as if something were bitten off.
2. Abruptly truncated, as though bitten or broken off.

Taking place or performed before death; an antonym of post-mortem.

Someone who is about to die; just before death.

Occurring, or pertaining to what may occur, before (some one’s) death.