What does syndrome mean?

Definitions for syndrome
ˈsɪn droʊm, -drəmsyn·drome

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. syndromenoun

    a complex of concurrent things

    "every word has a syndrome of meanings"

  2. syndromenoun

    a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease

GCIDE

  1. Syndromenoun

    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.

Wiktionary

  1. syndromenoun

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

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Syndromenoun

    Concurrent action; concurrence.

    Etymology: συνδϱομὴ.

    All things being linked together by an uninterrupted chain of causes, every single motion owns a dependance on such a syndrome of prerequired motors. Joseph Glanvill, Sceps.

ChatGPT

  1. syndrome

    A syndrome is a group or collection of related or associated symptoms, characteristics, or abnormalities that occur together, indicating the presence of a specific disease, disorder, or condition in a person. The symptoms collectively characterize a particular abnormality or condition, with the syndrome being named either after its discoverer or the primary symptom. It is often an effect of a genetic mutation or influence of certain environmental factors.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Syndromenoun

    concurrence

  2. Syndromenoun

    a group of symptoms occurring together that are characteristic and indicative of some underlying cause, such as a disease

  3. Etymology: [NL., from Gr. ; sy`n with + a course, a running.]

Wikidata

  1. Syndrome

    In medicine and psychology, a syndrome is the association of several clinically recognizable features, signs, symptoms, phenomena or characteristics that often occur together, so that the presence of one or more features alerts the healthcare provider to the possible presence of the others. In recent decades, the term has been used outside medicine to refer to a combination of phenomena seen in association. Some syndromes, such as Down syndrome, have only one cause; others, such as Parkinsonian syndrome, have multiple possible causes. In other cases, the cause of the syndrome is unknown. The term syndrome derives from the Greek συνδρομή and means "concurrence of symptoms, concourse", from σύν, "along with, together" + δρόμος, amongst others "course". A familiar syndrome name often continues to be used even after an underlying cause has been found, or when there are a number of different primary causes that all give rise to the same combination of symptoms and signs. Many syndromes are named after the physicians credited with first reporting the association; these are "eponymous" syndromes. Otherwise, disease features or presumed causes, as well as references to geography, history or poetry, can lend their names to syndromes.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Syndrome

    sin′drō-mē, n. concurrence. [Gr., syn, together, dramein, to run.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Syndrome

    A symptom complex of unknown etiology, that is characteristic of a particular abnormality.

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  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'syndrome' in Nouns Frequency: #2542

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of syndrome in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of syndrome in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of syndrome in a Sentence

  1. Valentin Fuster:

    They never had the clinical syndrome of a thrombotic disorder. It was silently causing damage.

  2. Med Jones:

    The US government alone cannot get its economy out of the crisis. It appears to me that the current policy makers are suffering from the gambler's syndrome. They keep spending more money hoping that they will eventually win. More debt spending is a receipt for bankruptcy. Real economic growth comes from government and private sector investments, not from massive debt spending followed by tax increases or currency devaluation.

  3. Cezary Jasi?ski:

    This idiotic ruling will not prevent abortions, but for every woman who will experience pain because of this ruling, or will be forced to give birth to a child with Down's Syndrome, they( court judges) will be to blame.

  4. Mark Zuckerberg:

    You know, I find that argument, that if you’re not paying that somehow we can’t care about you, to be extremely glib and not at all aligned with the truth, i think it’s important that we don’t all get Stockholm Syndrome and let the companies that work hard to charge you more convince you that they actually care more about you.

  5. Jeffrey Burns:

    This multisystem inflammatory syndrome is not directly caused by the virus, the leading hypothesis is that it is due to the immune response of the patient.

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