syndrome

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: syn=drome

CIDE DICTIONARY

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

•  Concurrence.  Glanvill.  [1913 Webster]
•  A group of symptoms occurring together that are characteristic and indicative of some underlying cause, such as a disease.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

syndrome, n.
1 a group of concurrent symptoms of a disease.
2 a characteristic combination of opinions, emotions, behaviour, etc.

Derivative

syndromic adj.

Etymology

mod.L f. Gk sundrome (as SYN-, drome f. dramein to run)

THESAURUS

syndrome

abnormality, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, atrophy, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, circulatory disease, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, disability, disease, disorder, distemper, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, epidemic disease, functional disease, fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, handicap, hereditary disease, iatrogenic disease, ill, illness, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, malady, malaise, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease, neurological disease, nutritional disease, occupational disease, organic disease, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, plant disease, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, respiratory disease, rockiness, secondary disease, seediness, sickishness, sickness, signs, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, the pip, urogenital disease, virus disease, wasting disease, worm disease