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a pattern of symptoms associated with an illness; or any recognizable pattern — especially when undesirable- She suffers from Asperger syndrome.
syndrome = a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease
- She suffers from Down syndrome.
- But I also have this other syndrome thing that I can't even pronounce.R.J. Palacio -- Wonder
- You might have heard, for example, of battered woman syndrome.Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
- olivia's told me about his "syndrome."R.J. Palacio -- Wonder
- ...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.R.J. Palacio -- Wonder
- Twenty years ago, at 18 years old, I felt like a war veteran, with a sort of post-traumatic stress syndrome.Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
- Driver ants, Ebola virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome: all these are brooms devised by nature to sweep a small clearing very well.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- In third grade, my teacher informed me that I have Asperger's syndrome.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
- You're suffering from what humans call Stockholm Syndrome: you have bonded with your captors.Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
- Random Access Memory, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Mutual Assured Destruction.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- Overall the tests pointed to post-traumatic stress syndrome, though she has yet to decide on the strategy to manage it.Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
- I thought she had Asperger's syndrome or something like it.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
- It is our thesis that the psychopathology of such murderers forms at least one specific syndrome which we shall describe.Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
- Asperger's syndrome, he thought.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Stockholm syndrome, individuals' desperate attempts to become like their captors.Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters
- Or too little vitamin K. Malabsorption syndrome.Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
- What I guess about you is that you have a nobility syndrome.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- Big fish in a little pond syndrome?David Baldacci -- Zero Day
- She has Meniere's syndrome.Ji-Li Jiang -- Red Scarf Girl
syndrome = a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease
syndrome = a pattern of symptoms associated with an illness
syndrome = a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease
syndrome = a pattern of symptoms associated with an illness
syndromes = patterns of symptoms associated with an illness
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