syndrome
About 30.24 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours, especially of a disease or medical or psychological condition.
Down syndrome; acquired immune deficiency syndrome; restless-leg syndrome; battered-wife syndrome
- noun Any set of characteristics regarded as identifying a certain type, condition, etc., usually adverse.
not-in-my-backyard syndrome; tip-of-the-tongue syndrome
Similar words
symptom disease acquired fever aids pneumonia immunodeficiency sars traumatic infant
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