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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Concurrence.
  2. n. In medicine, the concourse or combination of symptoms in a disease; a symptom-complex; a symptom-group. Compare prodrome, 2.

Wiktionary

  1. n. pathology A recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. rare Concurrence.
  2. n. (Med.) A group of symptoms occurring together that are characteristic and indicative of some underlying cause, such as a disease.
  3. n. generally, a pattern of characteristics or behaviors occurring together, that are sufficiently common and distinctive to indicate that they are due to a known cause.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease
  2. n. a complex of concurrent things

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek συνδρομή (syndrome, "concurrence of symptoms, concourse"), from σύνδρομος (syndromos, "running together"), from συν- (syn-, "with") + δρόμος (dromos, "running, course"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek sundromē, concurrence of symptoms, from sundromos, running together : sun-, syn- + dromos, a running. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Promoted to Headline (H3) on 12/13/09: In borrowing from China, we created our own economic ‘China syndrome 'yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' In borrowing from China, we created our own economic ‘China syndrome\ ''; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: These U.S. oil firms must be facing their own ‘Shock and Awe\'.”

    In borrowing from China, we created our own economic ���China syndrome'

  • “Toasted skin syndrome" is what Swiss researchers have dubbed a mottled-skin condition caused by long-term heat exposure.”

    The Washington Post: Toasted skin syndrome: Laptops burning skin

  • “Those extra chemicals generally didn't count as un-natural until the Chicken Nugget incident of 2015 when over three hundred thousand fast food patrons concocted a rare form of modified protein syndrome from the GM chicken they consumed.”

    Thoughts: How to Raise your Cyborg Child: A Self Help Article

  • “It appears to be much worse during seasonal allergy seasons," says Plaut, who explains that the syndrome is a result of a cross reactivity between the proteins in the pollens a person is allergic to and the proteins in certain foods that are structurally similar to those in the pollens.”

    Allergy sufferers journey into the season of symptoms

  • “A characteristic morphologic feature of hair in this syndrome is a triangular to reniform to heart shape on cross-sections, and a groove, canal or flattening along the entire length of the hair in at least 50% of hairs examined by scanning electron microscopy.”

    Boing Boing

  • “This would end what he described as the syndrome of separation between the work of the police and that of the justice system, with police cases often collapsing in the country's courts.”

    ANC Daily News Briefing

  • “I just know that the "syndrome" is what we would usually call people who are "nerds" or "geeks": they have facility with math and abstract concepts but find social interaction difficult and are very bad at reading the body language of others.”

    The Spice Must Flow

  • “Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome (NBCCS), also known as “Gorlin syndrome, is a hereditary cancer syndrome characterized by:”

    Nevoid Basal Cell Carcinoma Syndrome

  • “This discovery gave them the idea that the gene that causes Alagille syndrome is probably located on the missing portion of DNA on chromosome 20.”

    Genetics and Alagille Syndrome

  • “This syndrome is characterized by a combination of Wilms 'tumor, kidney failure, genitourinary malformations and gonad (ovaries or testes) abnormalities.”

    Diagnosing and treating pediatric hepatoblastoma

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synonyms (1)

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  1. concurrence

hypernyms (2)

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  1. complex
  1. composite

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Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. disorder
  2. dysfunction
  3. lesion
  4. diabetes
  1. abnormality
  2. arthritis
  3. tumors
  4. infection
  1. complication
  2. illness
  3. symptom
  4. inflammation
  1. ailment
  2. impairment
  3. injury
  4. trauma
  1. ulcer
  2. epilepsy
  3. apnea
  4. pathology
  1. depression
  2. deficiency

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. attention deficit disorder
  2. Tourette's syndrome
  3. Gilles de la Tourette syndrome
  4. tetanilla
  5. tetany
  6. Tietze's syndrome
  7. toxic shock
  8. toxic shock syndrome
  9. TSS
  10. waterhouse-friderichsen syndrome
  11. xxy-syndrome
  12. Zollinger–Ellison syndrome
  13. phantom limb syndrome
  14. PMS
  15. premenstrual syndrome
  16. radiation sickness
  17. radiation syndrome
  18. ramsay hunt syndrome
  19. reiter's disease
  20. Reiter's syndrome
  21. intermittent cramp
  22. intermittent tetanus
  1. klinefelter syndrome
  2. Klinefelter's syndrome
  3. Munchausen syndrome
  4. Munchausen’s syndrome
  5. nephrosis
  6. nephrotic syndrome
  7. noonan's syndrome
  8. radiation
  9. apyretic tetanus
  10. Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
  11. chronic fatigue syndrome
  12. fibromyalgia
  13. Down syndrome
  14. complex
  15. catatonia
  16. syndromic
  17. bulimia
  18. Kidou_Senshi_Gundam_00_Season_2_-_01
  19. end-customers
  20. Griffin89
  21. clonidine
  22. hyaline membrane disease
  1. trisomy 21
  2. spastic colon
  3. crib death
  4. sudden infant death syndrome
  5. coprolalia
  6. mongolism
  7. salicylism
  8. FAS
  9. CTS
  10. CFS
  11. Touretter
  12. Waardenburg syndrome
  13. SIDS
  14. Parkinsonism
  15. Korsakoff's syndrome
  16. Down's syndrome
  17. Cushing's disease
  18. CFIDS
  19. yuppie flu
  20. vocal tic
  21. syndrome
  22. trisomy 13
  1. shaken baby syndrome
  2. premenstrual dysphoric disorder
  3. paraneoplastic
  4. FMS
  5. pervasive developmental disorder
  6. serology
  7. dong quai
  8. chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome
  9. alpha-fetoprotein
  10. tenesmus
  11. xxy
  12. haloperidol
  13. RDS
  14. pimozide
  15. progeria
  16. down
  17. periodic apnea of the newborn
  18. reiter
  19. steatorrhea
  20. Mongoloid
  21. cot death
  22. Mongolian
  1. building sickness
  2. borderline
  3. Cushing
  4. epicanthic fold
  5. epicanthus
  6. Haldol
  7. hans conrad julius reiter
  8. harry f. klinefelter
  9. harry fitch kleinfelter
  10. harvery williams cushing
  11. harvey cushing
  12. HIV
  13. human immunodeficiency virus
  14. infantile autism
  15. john l. h. down
  16. keratoderma blennorrhagica
  17. keratosis blennorrhagica
  18. klinefelter
  19. macroglossia
  20. mercurialism
  21. micromercurialism
  22. monosodium glutamate

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