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–noun

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.

[Origin: 1535–45; < NL < Gk syndrom concurrence, combination, equiv. to syn- syn- + drom-, base meaning “run” (see -drome) + -é fem. n. suffix

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n.

A group of symptoms that collectively indicate or characterize a disease, psychological disorder, or other abnormal condition.
1. A complex of symptoms indicating the existence of an undesirable condition or quality.
2. A distinctive or characteristic pattern of behavior: the syndrome of conspicuous consumption in wealthy suburbs.

[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
noun
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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An abnormal condition or disease that is identified by an established group of signs and symptoms.