syndrome

[ sin-drohm, -druhm ]

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.

syndrome

/ sɪnˈdrɒmɪk; ˈsɪndrəʊm /

noun

1. med any combination of signs and symptoms that are indicative of a particular disease or disorder
2. a symptom, characteristic, or set of symptoms or characteristics indicating the existence of a condition, problem, etc

syndrome

/ sĭn′drōm′ /

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

syndrome

1. A set of signs and symptoms that appear together and characterize a disease or medical condition. AIDS is an example of a syndrome.

Notes

A collection of attitudes or behaviors that go together is often called a syndrome.

Derived Forms

• syndromic, adjective

Other Words From

• syn·drom·ic [sin-, drom, -ik], adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of syndrome¹

1535–45; < New Latin < Greek syndromḗ concurrence, combination, equivalent to syn- syn- + drom-, base meaning “run” ( -drome ) + -ē feminine noun suffix

Word History and Origins

Origin of syndrome¹

C16: via New Latin from Greek sundromē, literally: a running together, from syn- + dramein to run

Example Sentences

Some news reports have cited unnamed sources saying that a woman participating in the trial experienced symptoms consistent with transverse myelitis, a spinal cord inflammatory syndrome.

From Science News

They’ve been studied before for use in patients with ARDS, a syndrome that can be caused by a host of things including trauma and disease, since the 1960s.

From Popular-Science

Examples of such outcomes include stress fractures, overtraining syndrome, or waking up one morning and realizing that running sucks and should be reserved as punishment for our most violent criminals.

From Outside Online

Around one in four people across the world will suffer from a psychiatric syndrome during their lifetime.

From MIT Technology Review

Working with clients who have autism, Down syndrome and other speech disorders, she needed face shields for her therapists that allowed their mouths to be visible but protected.

From Ozy

Advanced maternal age dramatically increases the risk of maternal mortality as well as birth defects like Down Syndrome.

From The Daily Beast

Jolly somehow finds the time to also manage a restaurant and help kids who have Autism and Down syndrome ride horses.

From The Daily Beast

We still have a long way to go, but it has improved dramatically since the post Vietnam syndrome when Vets were spit on.

From The Daily Beast

In 1975, Sesame Street became the first children's program to feature someone with Down Syndrome.

From The Daily Beast

However, the current thinking is that Merrick may have suffered from Proteus syndrome.

From The Daily Beast

The Ganser syndrome, or twilight state, has been enlarged upon, and several variations of this condition have been isolated.

From Project Gutenberg

I have recently observed the Ganser syndrome in an undoubted case of toxic-exhaustion psychosis.

From Project Gutenberg

I will not go mad, but I will go into the adrenal syndrome unless I can end this soon.

From Project Gutenberg

This is the classical "damned if you do and damned if you don't" syndrome.

From Project Gutenberg

We are in the classical "damned if we do and damned if we don't" syndrome.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• ailment
• disorder
• malady
• problem
• sickness