syndrome

syndrome
syndromic /sin drom"ik/, adj.
/sin"drohm, -dreuhm/, n.
1. Pathol., Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.
2. a group of related or coincident things, events, actions, etc.
3. the pattern of symptoms that characterize or indicate a particular social condition.
4. 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.
[1535-45; < NL < Gk syndromé concurrence, combination, equiv. to syn- SYN- + drom-, base meaning "run" (see -DROME) + -e fem. n. suffix]

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(as used in expressions)
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
severe acute respiratory syndrome
Stein Leventhal syndrome

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