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

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.

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

Other Word Forms

• syndromic 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

But Goldstein - who is the first star with Down's syndrome to take part in a regular series of the dance show - also gave an insight into what she is most looking forward to.

From BBC

But experts have cautioned that finding the causes of autism - a complex syndrome that has been researched for decades - would not be simple.

From BBC

Prison authorities later told his mother Lyudmila that her son had experienced "sudden death syndrome".

From BBC

Their youngest, Scott, died of sudden infant death syndrome aged two months.

From BBC

One of their children, Scott, died at the age of two months from sudden infant death syndrome, CBS reports, and James, died of cancer in 2020.

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Related Words

• ailment 
• disorder 
• malady 
• problem 
• sickness