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syndrome
[ sin-drohm, -druhm ]
noun
- Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.
- a group of related or coincident things, events, actions, etc.
- the pattern of symptoms that characterize or indicate a particular social condition.
- a predictable, characteristic pattern of behavior, action, etc., that tends to occur under certain circumstances:
the retirement syndrome of endless golf and bridge games; the feast-or-famine syndrome of big business.
syndrome
/ sɪnˈdrɒmɪk; ˈsɪndrəʊm /
noun
- med any combination of signs and symptoms that are indicative of a particular disease or disorder
- a symptom, characteristic, or set of symptoms or characteristics indicating the existence of a condition, problem, etc
syndrome
/ sĭn′drōm′ /
- An abnormal condition or disease that is identified by an established group of signs and symptoms.
syndrome
- A set of signs and symptoms that appear together and characterize a disease or medical condition. AIDS is an example of a syndrome.
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Derived Forms
- syndromic, adjective
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Other Words From
- syn·drom·ic [sin-, drom, -ik], adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of syndrome1
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Example Sentences
Advanced maternal age dramatically increases the risk of maternal mortality as well as birth defects like Down Syndrome.
Jolly somehow finds the time to also manage a restaurant and help kids who have Autism and Down syndrome ride horses.
We still have a long way to go, but it has improved dramatically since the post Vietnam syndrome when Vets were spit on.
In 1975, Sesame Street became the first children's program to feature someone with Down Syndrome.
However, the current thinking is that Merrick may have suffered from Proteus syndrome.
The Ganser syndrome, or twilight state, has been enlarged upon, and several variations of this condition have been isolated.
I have recently observed the Ganser syndrome in an undoubted case of toxic-exhaustion psychosis.
I will not go mad, but I will go into the adrenal syndrome unless I can end this soon.
This is the classical "damned if you do and damned if you don't" syndrome.
We are in the classical "damned if we do and damned if we don't" syndrome.
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