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Word entry · 8 letters

syndrome

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"Set of symptoms"

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈsɪndɹəʊm/Part of speech nounSorted demnorsyStarts with SEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a complex of concurrent things

Word origin

Learned borrowing from New Latin syndrome, from Ancient Greek συνδρομή (sundromḗ, “concurrence of symptoms, concourse”), from σύνδρομος (súndromos, “running together”), from συν- (sun-, “with”) + δρόμος (drómos, “running, course”).

Used in a sentence

  • Down syndrome; acquired immune deficiency syndrome; restless-leg syndrome; battered-wife syndrome
  • A “zone of rarity” emerges when symptoms cluster neatly into syndromes and interforms are uncommon, although not altogether absent. Fuzzy boundaries and interforms are a special problem for PTSD […]
  • not-in-my-backyard syndrome; tip-of-the-tongue syndrome

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