Sample Sentences for
syndrome
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    My mom should be dreading empty-nest syndrome.  (source)
    syndrome = a pattern of symptoms associated with an illness (used casually; not referring to a medical illness)
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    From medical journals he deduced that he was suffering from a newly identified ailment known as post-polio syndrome.  (source)
    syndrome = a pattern of symptoms associated with an illness
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    So she told the mother that the baby had asphyxiated, and she reported the death on the forms she sent to San Jose as SIDS: sudden infant death syndrome.  (source)
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    Several exhaustive psychological studies were done on Halliday following his death, and his obsessive adherence to routine and preoccupation with a few obscure areas of interest led many psychologists to conclude that Halliday had suffered from Asperger's syndrome, or from some other form of high-functioning autism.  (source)
    syndrome = a pattern of symptoms associated with an illness
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    Your classes were monitored to provide data for my continuing studies on behavioral syndromes.†  (source)
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    They're trying to get me on their side, so I'll take part in whatever criminal activities they have planned. There's an expression for that, isn't there? When a hostage joins the kidnappers' cause? ... Stockholm syndrome!  (source)
    syndrome = a pattern of symptoms associated with an illness (in this case, a mental condition)
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    He had read about them in textbooks, he had seen them confirmed in real life, in older patients with no history of serious ailments who suddenly began to describe perfect syndromes that seemed to come straight from medical texts and yet turned out to be imaginary.†  (source)
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    You might have heard, for example, of battered woman syndrome.  (source)
    syndrome = a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease
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    They'd look like myocardial infarcts or arteriosclerotic brain syndromes, depending on how it hit them.†  (source)
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    The most dangerous thing we'd encountered was a seagull with irritable bowel syndrome.†  (source)
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    He writes: When we observe a woman who seems hostile and fiercely independent some of the time but passive, dependent and feminine on other occasions, our reducing valve usually makes us choose between the two syndromes.†  (source)
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    This syndrome is as familiar to me as Hester throwing up on New Year's Eve.†  (source)
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    …some doctor told her parents that the odds of someone getting the same combination of syndromes that came together to make auggie's face were like one in four million.  (source)
    syndromes = patterns of symptoms associated with an illness
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