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noun
A recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours, especially of a disease or medical or psychological condition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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noun
Any set of characteristics regarded as identifying a certain type, condition, etc., usually adverse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a complex of concurrent things
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: complex, composite
noun
a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Broader terms: symptom
Narrower terms: autism, attention deficit disorder, ADD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, hyperkinetic syndrome, minimal brain dysfunction, minimal brain damage, MBD, Horner's syndrome, cervical disc syndrome, cervical root syndrome, Chinese restaurant syndrome, Conn's syndrome, fetal alcohol syndrome, FAS, Gulf War syndrome, Persian Gulf illness, Klinefelter's syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, XXY-syndrome, malabsorption syndrome, Munchausen's syndrome, Munchausen syndrome, nephrotic syndrome, nephrosis, Noonan's syndrome, phantom limb syndrome, premenstrual syndrome, PMS, radiation sickness, radiation syndrome, radiation, Ramsay Hunt syndrome, Reiter's syndrome, Reiter's disease, restless legs syndrome, restless legs, Ekbom syndrome, Reye's syndrome, scalenus syndrome, tetany, tetanilla, intermittent tetanus, intermittent cramp, apyretic tetanus, thoracic outlet syndrome, Tietze's syndrome, Tourette's syndrome, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, tetralogy of Fallot, Fallot's tetralogy, Fallot's syndrome, toxic shock, toxic shock syndrome, TSS, Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, Williams syndrome, Zollinger-Ellison syndrome
History
Learned borrowing from New Latin syndrome, from Ancient Greek συνδρομή (sundromḗ, “concurrence of symptoms, concourse”), from σύνδρομος (súndromos, “running together”), from συν- (sun-, “with”) + δρόμος (drómos, “running, course”).
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