Picture a set of signs that keep showing up together as one recognizable package — not one symptom alone, but a cluster that runs together, so doctors give the whole bundle a single name.
From the word’s history
From Greek syndromos 'running together' (syn- 'together' + dromos 'a running, course'). The root picture is several things running together at once — exactly a syndrome, where a group of symptoms turns up together as one recognizable set.
源自希臘文 syndromos「一起跑」（syn- 一起 + dromos 跑、路程）。字根的畫面比較像好幾樣東西同時一起跑出來——這正是 syndrome：一群症狀結伴出現，湊成一個能認得的組合。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com/word/syndrome)
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syndromenoun/ˈsɪndɹəʊm/
- 1
medicinepathologysciencesA 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
- 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 […]
- 2
Any set of characteristics regarded as identifying a certain type, condition, etc., usually adverse.
- not-in-my-backyard syndrome; tip-of-the-tongue syndrome
- My roommate, Tony, and I were sitting in our living room on a Saturday afternoon trying to decide what to do that night. You know the syndrome: Saturday night when everyone is supposed to do something exciting and have a great time. If you don't, you're likely to wake up on Sunday morning feeling weird and lonely.
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