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syndrome

syn·drome

syndrome

 
pronunciation:
sIn drm [or] sIn drom
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part of speech: noun
definition 1: a group or pattern of symptoms that together are indicative of a particular disease, disorder, or condition.
definition 2: a distinctive pattern, as of behavior, population distribution, or the like.
Word Combinations  About this feature
adjective + (n.)syndrome acquired, acute, battered, behavioral, broken, cardiac, carpal, chronic, clinical, coronary, deadly, debilitating, delayed, delinquent, false, fetal, fragile, hemolytic, hypoplastic, immune, inflammatory, irritable, leaky, metabolic, multiple, mysterious, obstructive, organic, parental, post-traumatic, premenstrual, psychiatric, pulmonary, repetitive, repressed, respiratory, restless, severe, shaken, sick, so-called, somatic, straight, sudden, sympathetic, systemic, thoracic, toxic, uraemic, uremic, viral [See all][See only the most frequent]
verb + (n.)syndrome acquire, afflict, associate, born, call, crush, diagnose, overcome, relieve, suffer, term, usher, withdraw
(n.)syndrome + verb affect, cause, characterize, externalize, internalize, manifest, trigger
noun + (n.)syndrome Help alcohol, alienation, allergy, anomaly, apnea, baby, backyard, bowel, brain, cause, compartment, complaint, complication, crush, cure, death, defect, deficiency, dependency, diagnosis, disability, disease, distress, dysfunction, fatigue, fetus, fever, grouping, gut, illness, incidence, infant, leg, lupus, malformation, manifestation, memory, nest, outlet, pain, palsy, patient, poppy, proxy, savant, sclerosis, shock, sinus, sleep, slot, southeast, stress, symptom, transfusion, trauma, treatment, tunnel, victim, withdrawal [See all][See only the most frequent]
Word Parts  About this feature
The word syndrome contains the following part:
syn- Greek prefix that means with, together with
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The prefix "syn- " occurs in Greek loanwords and attaches to Greek roots. It has several forms, as the final "n" sound in "syn- " assimilates to the initial sound of the base to which it is attached. See its assimilated forms sym-, syl-, and sys-.
synonyms:
com-