syndrome
[sin-drohm, -druh m]
- 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.
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Origin of syndrome
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Contemporary Examples
We still have a long way to go, but it has improved dramatically since the post Vietnam syndrome when Vets were spit on.
It goes back to that series of great expectations, the Jim Palmer syndrome.
By the standards of Syndrome Z, her developmental progress is remarkable.
So much for the Stockholm syndrome the GOP House leadership insists represents political reality.
Neurologist Oliver Sacks says the syndrome helps give the Team USA goalie ‘abnormal quickness.’
Historical Examples
This is the classical "damned if you do and damned if you don't" syndrome.
Shock and AweHarlan K. Ullman
We are in the classical "damned if we do and damned if we don't" syndrome.
Shock and AweHarlan K. Ullman
"Which may very well be considered part of your syndrome," said Goil.
Jack of No TradesCharles Cottrell
But always—always the synergism, syndrome, or whatever you want to call it, is the same.
Jack of No TradesCharles Cottrell
This is the syndrome which the medical student is taught to carry away to guide him in his everyday practice.
Scurvy Past and PresentAlfred Fabian Hess
syndrome
- 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
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Word Origin
C16: via New Latin from Greek sundromē, literally: a running together, from syn- + dramein to run
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Word Origin and History for syndrome
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syndrome
(sĭn′drōm′)- A group of symptoms that collectively indicate or characterize a disease, a psychological disorder, or another abnormal condition.
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The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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syndrome
[sĭn′drōm′]
- An abnormal condition or disease that is identified by an established group of signs and symptoms.
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The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
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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.
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Note
A collection of attitudes or behaviors that go together is often called a syndrome.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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