# syndrome

Pronunciation: say "SIN-drohm" US /ˈsɪndɹoʊm/, UK /ˈsɪndɹəʊm/

## Noun

1. A recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms, or behaviors that occur together, especially marking a disease or a medical or psychological condition.
   - Simple: A group of signs and symptoms that often appear together and point to one illness.
   - _After months of tests, the specialist identified a rare syndrome behind the boy's symptoms._
   - _Several syndromes share overlapping features, which makes early diagnosis difficult._
2. A set of characteristics regarded as marking a particular type or condition, usually one with negative effects.
   - Simple: A group of behaviors or traits that often go together and usually cause problems.
   - _Critics described the company's refusal to admit faults as a classic syndrome of corporate denial._
   - _The not-invented-here syndrome leads teams to reject good ideas from outside._

## Origin

A learned borrowing from New Latin syndrome, from Ancient Greek συνδρομή (sundromḗ, "concurrence of symptoms"), based on σύνδρομος (súndromos, "running together"), from συν- (sun-, "with") plus δρόμος (drómos, "running, course").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/syndrome (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).