Syndrome
//ˈsɪndɹəʊm// noun
noun ·Top 500 ·Middle school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours, especially of a disease or medical or psychological condition.
"Down syndrome; acquired immune deficiency syndrome; restless-leg syndrome; battered-wife syndrome"
- 2 a complex of concurrent things wordnet
- 3 Any set of characteristics regarded as identifying a certain type, condition, etc., usually adverse.
"not-in-my-backyard syndrome; tip-of-the-tongue syndrome"
- 4 a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease wordnet
Example
More examples"It is not clearly stated in their study if the patients overcame this syndrome during the therapy."
Etymology
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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