Syndrome

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A group of symptoms that collectively indicate or characterize a disease, psychological disorder, or other abnormal condition.
  • n. A complex of symptoms indicating the existence of an undesirable condition or quality.
  • n. A distinctive or characteristic pattern of behavior: the syndrome of conspicuous consumption in wealthy suburbs.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Concurrence.
  • n. A group of symptoms occurring together that are characteristic and indicative of some underlying cause, such as a disease.
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Concurrence.
  • n. In medicine, the concourse or combination of symptoms in a disease; a symptom-complex; a symptom-group. Compare prodrome, 2.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease
  • n. a complex of concurrent things
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    disorder    dysfunction    lesion    diabetes    abnormality    arthritis    tumors    infection    complication    illness