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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
syndrome
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Asperger's syndrome
carpal tunnel syndrome
chronic fatigue syndrome
Down's syndrome
economy class syndrome
irritable bowel syndrome
metabolic syndrome
premenstrual syndrome
sick building syndrome
▪ A common household fungus can contribute to sick building syndrome.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
tall poppy syndrome
Tourette’s syndrome
toxic shock syndrome
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
carpal
▪ The problems-from bad backs to carpal tunnel syndrome to headaches-have made the headlines of every health magazine in the country.
chronic
▪ Lighter infections result in a chronic syndrome characterised by anaemia and emaciation.
▪ In fact, very little about chronic fatigue syndrome has achieved medical consensus, not even the name.
▪ These drugs have proved effective in other chronic pain syndromes.
▪ They were also slightly more often diagnosed as suffering from alcoholism, schizophrenia, hysteria and chronic brain syndrome.
down
▪ The average life expectancy of a child with Down syndrome was 9 years in 1910.
▪ With specialized medical care, the current life expectancy of persons with Down syndrome has risen to 55 years.
▪ Its students have Down syndrome, autism and mental illness.
▪ They had foregone amniocentesis; the fact that their second child had Down syndrome was not known.
▪ People say I have Down syndrome.
▪ Proceeds from the calendar will support a documentary for parents of newborns with Down syndrome.
▪ Doctors believe that Jensen is only the second person with Down syndrome to receive a heart and lung transplant.
empty
▪ No one ever told me either that a stepmother could suffer so badly from empty nest syndrome.
hyperkinetic
▪ The procedure for testing foods is slightly different for hyperkinetic syndrome.
▪ These symptoms, often known collectively as hyperactivity or the hyperkinetic syndrome are dealt with more fully in Chapter Eleven.
▪ Although a child like Matthew clearly shows abnormal behaviour, others with hyperkinetic syndrome may only be mildly affected.
▪ The role of food colourings, preservatives and other additives in hyperkinetic syndrome has received a lot of publicity.
▪ What to do about hyperkinetic syndrome Hyperkinetic syndrome can begin in infancy.
irritable
▪ The physiological significance of the findings in diarrhoea predominant irritable bowel syndrome patients, which were contrary to expectation, is unknown.
▪ The first four symptoms encompass the six Manning criteria for diagnosing irritable bowel syndrome.
▪ It is not difficult to imagine how a disorder such as irritable bowel syndrome could affect a patient psychologically.
▪ An extra tablespoon sprinkled over the breakfast cereal can help control irritable bowel syndrome, piles, appendicitis and bowel cancer.
▪ This study lacked objective or prospective data and was biased by the exclusion from the controls of people with irritable bowel syndrome.
▪ This was not necessary with irritable bowel syndrome symptoms as their prevalence does not change with age in this population.
▪ It also inhibits motor activity induced by rectal distention and increases sensory thresholds for defaecation in patients with the irritable bowel syndrome.
▪ The same drug given intravenously prevents the postprandial increase in sigmoid segmenting pressure activity in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.
new
▪ N New tank syndrome: A lethal combination of all the problems mentioned in this article.
▪ He also grew interested in the research surrounding the new syndrome.
▪ The combination of these and other intestinal infections led doctors to identify a new disease syndrome in 1976.
▪ B.. Improve laboratory and epidemiologic techniques for the rapid identification of new pathogens and syndromes.
premenstrual
▪ Two doctors have told her that she has premenstrual syndrome and that most women do.
respiratory
▪ Associations have been shown between low packed cell volume or red cell volume, or both, and the respiratory distress syndrome.
▪ Although the incidence of the respiratory distress syndrome was similar in our groups there were significant differences in variables reflecting disease severity.
▪ An X-ray showed that's lungs hadn't fully matured and that he was suffering respiratory distress syndrome.
▪ She had well established adult respiratory distress syndrome, requiring artificial ventilation with 90% fractional inspired oxygen.
shock
▪ Viscose rayon was linked to toxic shock syndrome in a 1994 study by two New York University researchers.
▪ The symptoms of toxic shock syndrome include high fever, a rash, vomiting and low blood pressure.
sick
▪ It believes that the economic evidence on the significance of sick building syndrome is of the greatest importance.
sudden
▪ The risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome within groups were remarkably similar.
▪ Then they used scare tactics, telling the audience that fat people were apt to succumb to something called Sudden Death syndrome.
▪ Risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome were calculated separately for Maori and non-Maori children.
▪ This, of course, assumes that these variables are causally related to sudden infant death syndrome and are independent.
▪ Discussion Mortality from sudden infant death syndrome varies between countries.
▪ Ethnic differences in mortality from sudden infant death syndrome have been reported from several countries.
▪ Setting - New Zealand. 485 infants who died of sudden infant death syndrome were compared with 1800 control infants.
toxic
▪ We report a fatal case of toxic shock syndrome in a 14 year old girl associated with minor day case dermatological surgery.
▪ Viscose rayon was linked to toxic shock syndrome in a 1994 study by two New York University researchers.
▪ Certain toxic syndromes indicating a specific substance may become familiar to medical staff owing to frequent local abuse.
▪ The symptoms of toxic shock syndrome include high fever, a rash, vomiting and low blood pressure.
▪ Twenty four hours after admission toxic shock syndrome was finally diagnosed.
▪ If this is the case then the mystery which originally shrouded toxic shock syndrome has been solved.
▪ There are several candidates for the toxin that might cause toxic shock syndrome.
■ NOUN
bowel
▪ The physiological significance of the findings in diarrhoea predominant irritable bowel syndrome patients, which were contrary to expectation, is unknown.
▪ The first four symptoms encompass the six Manning criteria for diagnosing irritable bowel syndrome.
▪ It is not difficult to imagine how a disorder such as irritable bowel syndrome could affect a patient psychologically.
▪ An extra tablespoon sprinkled over the breakfast cereal can help control irritable bowel syndrome, piles, appendicitis and bowel cancer.
▪ This study lacked objective or prospective data and was biased by the exclusion from the controls of people with irritable bowel syndrome.
▪ This was not necessary with irritable bowel syndrome symptoms as their prevalence does not change with age in this population.
▪ It also inhibits motor activity induced by rectal distention and increases sensory thresholds for defaecation in patients with the irritable bowel syndrome.
▪ The same drug given intravenously prevents the postprandial increase in sigmoid segmenting pressure activity in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.
building
▪ It believes that the economic evidence on the significance of sick building syndrome is of the greatest importance.
death
▪ The risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome within groups were remarkably similar.
▪ Then they used scare tactics, telling the audience that fat people were apt to succumb to something called Sudden Death syndrome.
▪ Risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome were calculated separately for Maori and non-Maori children.
▪ This, of course, assumes that these variables are causally related to sudden infant death syndrome and are independent.
▪ Discussion Mortality from sudden infant death syndrome varies between countries.
▪ Ethnic differences in mortality from sudden infant death syndrome have been reported from several countries.
▪ Setting - New Zealand. 485 infants who died of sudden infant death syndrome were compared with 1800 control infants.
distress
▪ Associations have been shown between low packed cell volume or red cell volume, or both, and the respiratory distress syndrome.
▪ Although the incidence of the respiratory distress syndrome was similar in our groups there were significant differences in variables reflecting disease severity.
▪ An X-ray showed that's lungs hadn't fully matured and that he was suffering respiratory distress syndrome.
▪ She had well established adult respiratory distress syndrome, requiring artificial ventilation with 90% fractional inspired oxygen.
fatigue
▪ In fact, very little about chronic fatigue syndrome has achieved medical consensus, not even the name.
▪ Chronic fatigue syndrome rarely kills, at least not directly.
patient
▪ The physiological significance of the findings in diarrhoea predominant irritable bowel syndrome patients, which were contrary to expectation, is unknown.
▪ Like most Guillain-Barré syndrome patients, he required maximal nursing, medical and physiotherapy care but did not need sedation.
▪ The two poor responders in our group were both irritable bowel syndrome patients with major psychological problems.
tunnel
▪ The problems-from bad backs to carpal tunnel syndrome to headaches-have made the headlines of every health magazine in the country.
war
▪ Early reports of birth defects l inked to the Gulf War syndrome have been disproved, Whitesides said.
■ VERB
call
▪ A collection of symptoms is called a syndrome.
▪ Then they used scare tactics, telling the audience that fat people were apt to succumb to something called Sudden Death syndrome.
▪ His condition would probably be what today is called post-traumatic stress syndrome.
cause
▪ There are several candidates for the toxin that might cause toxic shock syndrome.
suffer
▪ An X-ray showed that's lungs hadn't fully matured and that he was suffering respiratory distress syndrome.
▪ Editor, - Benjamin Simkin claims on false evidence that Mozart suffered from Tourette's syndrome, a tic disorder.
▪ However, he is now thought to have suffered from Proteus syndrome.
▪ They studied 27 patients suffering from irritable bowel syndrome who believed themselves to have food allergy or intolerance.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Herniated disk syndrome is more common in males.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A further patient was found to have the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome.
▪ An extra tablespoon sprinkled over the breakfast cereal can help control irritable bowel syndrome, piles, appendicitis and bowel cancer.
▪ It is estimated that as many as 13,000 have died and 270,000 are victims of the syndrome.
▪ The average life expectancy of a child with Down syndrome was 9 years in 1910.
▪ This paradox has prompted research on the potential contribution of varying infant care practices to the prevention of deaths from this syndrome.
▪ This was not necessary with irritable bowel syndrome symptoms as their prevalence does not change with age in this population.
▪ Two doctors have told her that she has premenstrual syndrome and that most women do.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Syndrome

Syndrome \Syn"dro*me\, n. [NL., from Gr. ?; sy`n with + ? a course, a running.]

  1. Concurrence. [R.]
    --Glanvill.

  2. (Med.) A group of symptoms occurring together that are characteristic and indicative of some underlying cause, such as a disease.

  3. 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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
syndrome

"a number of symptoms occurring together," 1540s, from medical Latin, from Greek syndrome "concurrence of symptoms, concourse of people," from syndromos "place where several roads meet," literally "a running together," from syn- "with" (see syn-) + dromos "a running, course" (see dromedary). Psychological sense is from 1955.

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Wiktionary
syndrome

n. (context pathology English) A recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours.

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WordNet
syndrome

  1. n. a complex of concurrent things; "every word has a syndrome of meanings"

  2. a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease

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Wikipedia
Syndrome

A syndrome is a set of medical signs and symptoms that are correlated with each other and, often, with a specific disease. The word derives from the Greek σύνδρομον, meaning "concurrence". In some instances a syndrome is so closely correlated with a pathogenesis or etiology that the words syndrome, disease, and disorder end up being used interchangeably for them. This is especially true of inherited syndromes. For example, Down syndrome, Wolf–Hirschhorn syndrome, and Andersen syndrome are disorders with known pathogeneses, so each is more than just a set of signs and symptoms, despite the syndrome nomenclature. In other instances, a syndrome is not specific to only one disease. For example, toxic shock syndrome can be caused by various toxins; premotor syndrome can be caused by various brain lesions; and premenstrual syndrome is not a disease but simply a set of symptoms.

If an underlying genetic cause is suspected but not known, a condition may be referred to as a genetic association (often just "association" in context). By definition, an association indicates that the collection of signs and symptoms occurs in combination more frequently than would be likely by chance alone.

Syndromes are often named after the physician or group of physicians that discovered them or initially described the full clinical picture. Such eponymous syndrome names are examples of medical eponyms. Recently, there has been a shift towards naming conditions descriptively (by symptoms or underlying cause) rather than eponymously, but the eponymous syndrome names often persist in common usage.

Syndrome (disambiguation)

Syndrome may refer to:

  • Syndrome in medicine
  • Syndrome decoding, in coding theory
  • Syndrome (The Incredibles), a fictional character
  • Syndrome (video game series)
  • Syndrome (TV series), is a 2012 JTBC television series starring Han Hye-jin, Song Chang-ui and Park Geun-young
Syndrome (TV series)

Syndrome is a 2012 South Korean medical drama series, starring Han Hye-jin, Song Chang-eui and Park Gun-hyung. It is set in the world of neurosurgery where a medical student finds herself in a love triangle with two fellow doctors. The television series aired on JTBC from February 13 to April 17, 2012 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.

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Usage examples of "syndrome".

Syndrome a couple of weeks ago, and I contacted Dr Menton here immediately.

That hatred syndrome brought in by the pandemic plague of the epochs, was creeping south and north and every which way.

There was much muscle wastage, there was fluid in the lungs, her pericardial sac was enlarged, and she was suffering from Dry Lung Syndrome, presumably caused by the low-pressure recirculated air of your spacecraft.

Untreated chronic disorders such as anemia, chronic fatigue syndrome, untreated thyroid conditions, seasonal affective disorder, menopausal or perimenopausal symptoms, or immune-deficiency problems can make a person too exhausted to conjure up a creative new life.

Boyd, what with the leech syndrome and everything, she did know that Prissy could get stuck that way for a very long time.

Through the production of a variety of toxins and enzymes, staph caused boils, abscesses, conjunctivitis, and a condition known as scalded skin syndrome in which the skin came away in sheets.

Under the thick layer of game-theory was another level, a submarginal syndrome of hate and desire and terrible fear: jealousy of Benteley, a ceaseless terror of death, involved schemes and plans, a complicated gestalt of need and goal-oriented drive actualized in an overpowering sledge-hammer of ambition.

If she would shed the superwoman syndrome, the whole family would get along better.

Gilles de la Tourette, a pupil of Charcot, described the astonishing syndrome which now bears his name.

Leon Turpin had ruled the great industrial syndrome which comprised the enterprise Terran Development.

In those days he saw mostly kids with adrenogenital syndrome, the most common form of female hermaphroditism.

In worst cases, that can lead to organ failure, but it can also lead to other autoimmune diseases such as lupus, inflammatory bowel syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis.

The work and worry syndrome, which never satisfies the insatiable demand for more and more things, fritters our God-given lives away on the nothingness of worldly status.

The other things that go along with the syndrome are hypersexuality and pathological intoxication.

With AIDS, you get HIV-Human Immunodeficiency Virus-and then maybe a few years later, it blossoms into full-blown Advanced Immune Deficiency Syndrome, putting the sufferer at risk for contracting fatal cancers or flus.