English > syndrome: 2 senses > noun 2, state| Meaning | A pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease. |
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| Part of | disease | An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning |
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| Narrower | Chinese restaurant syndrome | headache and tingling or burning feelings and sweating caused by eating food that contains monosodium glutamate |
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| Conn's syndrome | Disturbances in saltwater balance and symptoms of weakness and muscular cramps and twitching and convulsions and sometimes paralysis |
| Gulf War syndrome, Persian Gulf illness | A medical condition of uncertain origin that affected many veterans of the 1991 Gulf War |
| Horner's syndrome | A pattern of symptoms occurring as a result of damage to nerves in the cervical region of the spine (drooping eyelids and constricted pupils and absence of facial sweating) |
| Klinefelter's syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, XXY-syndrome | Syndrome in males that is characterized by small testes and long legs and enlarged breasts and reduced sperm production and mental retardation |
| Munchausen's syndrome, Munchausen syndrome | syndrome consisting of feigning acute and dramatic / dramatic illness for which no clinical evidence is ever found |
| Noonan's syndrome | syndrome seen only in males |
| Ramsay Hunt syndrome | syndrome resulting from infection by the herpes varicella zoster virus |
| Reiter's syndrome, Reiter's disease | An inflammatory syndrome (etiology unknown) predominantly in males |
| Reye's syndrome | acquired encephalopathy following acute viral infections (especially influenza or chicken pox) in young children |
| Tietze's syndrome | syndrome characterized by swelling of rib cartilage (causing pain) |
| Tourette's syndrome, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome | neurological disorder characterized by facial grimaces and tics and movements of the upper body and grunts and shouts and coprolalia |
| Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome | syndrome associated with bacterial meningitis |
| Williams syndrome | A rare congenital disorder associated with deletion of genetic material in chromosome 7 |
| Zollinger-Ellison syndrome | syndrome consisting of intractable peptic ulceration with gastric hypersecretion and hyperacidity |
| attention deficit disorder, ADD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, hyperkinetic syndrome, minimal brain dysfunction, minimal brain damage, MBD | A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders |
| autism | (psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self |
| cervical disc syndrome, cervical root syndrome | An abnormal condition resulting from compression of spinal nerve roots in the neck region |
| fetal alcohol syndrome, FAS | A congenital medical condition in which body deformation occurs or facial development or mental ability is impaired because the mother drinks alcohol during pregnancy |
| malabsorption syndrome | A pattern of symptoms including loss of appetite and bloating and weight loss and muscle pain and steatorrhea |
| nephrotic syndrome, nephrosis | A syndrome characterized by edema and large amounts of protein in the urine and usually increased blood cholesterol |
| phantom limb syndrome | syndrome consisting of discomfort or pain in a limb that has been amputated |
| premenstrual syndrome, PMS | A syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation |
| radiation sickness, radiation syndrome, radiation | syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions) |
| restless legs syndrome, restless legs, Ekbom syndrome | Feeling of uneasiness and restlessness in the legs after going to bed (sometimes causing insomnia) |
| scalenus syndrome | discomfort and vascular symptoms and loss of sensation in a shoulder and arm |
| tetany, tetanilla, intermittent tetanus, intermittent cramp, apyretic tetanus | clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures |
| tetralogy of Fallot, Fallot's tetralogy, Fallot's syndrome | A congenital heart defect producing cyanosis |
| thoracic outlet syndrome | Tingling sensations in the fingers |
| toxic shock, toxic shock syndrome, TSS | syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus |
| Broader | symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease |
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| Spanish | síndrome |
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| Catalan | síndrome |
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