early onset
Before typical age
Early onset describes a condition or disease that appears at a younger age than typical.
Medical contexts use it to distinguish cases that develop before an expected threshold: early onset Alzheimer's, early onset diabetes.
The phrase implies the condition normally affects older people but has manifested unusually soon.
- prematureOccurring before expected
- head startBeginning advantage given
- juvenileYoung person or animal
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
young age · symptoms · Alzheimer's · dementia · memory loss · genetic · hereditary · family history · warning · signs · pediatric · developmental · delayed · adolescent · puberty · first signs · menopause · mid-life crisis
- juvenile delinquencyjuvenile crime, juvenile justice, juvenile court, youth crime, youth offenders
- ParkinsonismParkinson disease, tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity, deep brain stimulation
- psychosishallucinations, psychosis, delusions, delusion, schizophrenia
timing of manifestation
early onsetlate onset
adult onset · late-life · senile · age-related · geriatric
early, onset, earlier, earliest, earliness, set, sets, setting