syn·drome
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| 1. | Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like. |
| 2. | a group of related or coincident things, events, actions, etc. |
| 3. | the pattern of symptoms that characterize or indicate a particular social condition. |
| 4. | 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. |
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syndrome
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| syn·drome
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[Greek sundromē, concurrence of symptoms, from sundromos, running together : sun-, syn- + dromos, a running.] syn·drom'ic (-drō'mĭk, -drŏm'ĭk) adj. |
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syndrome
"a number of symptoms occurring together," 1541, from Mod.L., from Gk. syndrome "concurrence of symptoms, concourse," from syndromos, lit. "running together," from syn- "with" + dromos "running, course." Psychological sense is from 1955.
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| syndrome | |
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| 1. | a complex of concurrent things; "every word has a syndrome of meanings" |
| 2. | a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease |
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| syndrome
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An abnormal condition or disease that is identified by an established group of signs and symptoms. |
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syndrome [(sin-drohm)]
A set of signs and symptoms that appear together and characterize a disease or medical condition. AIDS is an example of a syndrome.
Note: A collection of attitudes or behaviors that go together is often called a syndrome.
[Chapter:] Medicine and Health
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Syndrome
Syn"dro*me\, n. [NL., from Gr. ?; sy`n with + ? a course, a running.] Concurrence. [R.] --Glanvill.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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