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  • They call it posttraumatic syndrome.†   (source)
  • And when she said this, I saw myself transforming like a werewolf, a mutant tag of DNA suddenly triggered, replicating itself insidiously into a syndrome, a cluster of telltale Chinese behaviors, all those things my mother did to embarrass me—haggling with store owners, pecking her mouth with a toothpick in public, being color-blind to the fact that lemon yellow and pale pink are not good combinations for winter clothes.†   (source)
  • Overall the tests pointed to post-traumatic stress syndrome, though she has yet to decide on the strategy to manage it.†   (source)
  • There was always something wrong with people other than just sucking: they had socialization disorders, or borderline personality syndrome, or whatever.†   (source)
  • She has Meniere's syndrome.†   (source)
  • Of everyone in the family, it was Lindsey who had to deal with what Holly called the Walking Dead Syndrome—when other people see the dead person and don't see you.†   (source)
  • You're suffering from what humans call Stockholm Syndrome: you have bonded with your captors.†   (source)
  • I asked her once if she might have restless leg syndrome—an ad for the disease was running, the actors' faces all furrowed in distress as they shook their calves and rubbed their thighs—and Amy said, I have restless everything syndrome.†   (source)
  • Twenty years ago, at 18 years old, I felt like a war veteran, with a sort of post-traumatic stress syndrome.†   (source)
  • Something like Methuselah syndrome or early Alzheimer's disease?†   (source)
  • In a bizarre twist, the gulf war syndrome, which seemed to be physiological in nature, was dismissed by authorities as simply a modern version of shell shock; these would be the same authorities, of course, who in that earlier age would have denied that shell shock existed.†   (source)
  • Driver ants, Ebola virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome: all these are brooms devised by nature to sweep a small clearing very well.†   (source)
  • You see, Danny's fantasies were considerably deeper than those that grow around the ordinary invisible friend syndrome, but he felt he needed Tony that much more.†   (source)
  • "Now we got the four-map syndrome," she said.†   (source)
  • The most dangerous thing we'd encountered was a seagull with irritable bowel syndrome.†   (source)
  • A for-real China Syndrome.†   (source)
  • It's what they call a compensation syndrome.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Asperger's syndrome, he thought.†   (source)
  • She has another baby born with fetal alcohol syndrome, because she was drinking so much grieving the first baby that she marinated the second one.†   (source)
  • Irritable bowel syndrome.†   (source)
  • Random Access Memory, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Mutual Assured Destruction.†   (source)
  • Parking Need Syndrome.†   (source)
  • Meatpacking workers routinely develop back problems, shoulder problems, carpal tunnel syndrome, and "trigger finger" (a syndrome in which a finger becomes frozen in a curled position).†   (source)
  • For those of you who may not understand the enemy we face out here let me remind you that the previous week this group of terrorists took two innocent and unwitting women who had Downs Syndrome, rigged them with explosive vests and detonated them 20 minutes apart in a crowded market causing several deaths and hundreds of injuries.†   (source)
  • A crone-prone syndrome.†   (source)
  • "It was a typical ARDS picture—acute respiratory distress syndrome—like early pneumonia," Dr. Silverstein said.†   (source)
  • Ghosh called it the RLH syndrome.†   (source)
  • It is our thesis that the psychopathology of such murderers forms at least one specific syndrome which we shall describe.†   (source)
  • They call it the crab/bucket syndrome: when one crab tries to climb from the bucket, the others pull it back down.†   (source)
  • Your classes were monitored to provide data for my continuing studies on behavioral syndromes.†   (source)
  • It's classic boy-pulling-girl's-pigtail syndrome.†   (source)
  • None of this would be mysterious to a young ethnographer-doctor who, like Farmer, was willing to puzzle out the social meanings of the syndrome.†   (source)
  • I have a Garnett-Fleischaker syndrome.†   (source)
  • I didn't even understand what AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) meant before.†   (source)
  • The president has long suffered from a condition known as autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 2 (APS-2), which has caused not only his hypothyroidism (insufficient thyroid hormone) but also his Addison's disease, which must be closely monitored at all times.†   (source)
  • Today a battle-scarred Ira Hayes would be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress syndrome, and there would be understanding and treatment available to him.†   (source)
  • It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate with a chisel, to pound it off with a sledge if necessary.†   (source)
  • "The Mount Everest syndrome," Bryan commented and earned a rare, spontaneous grin.†   (source)
  • Stockholm syndrome, individuals' desperate attempts to become like their captors.†   (source)
  • He was suffering from a minor case of Stockholm syndrome, and in the shock of the shootings, he didn't understand what had just happened and why.†   (source)
  • A determination had been made that Katelya McTiernan wasn't psychotic, but that she was suffering from posttraumatic stress syndrome.†   (source)
  • By 2002, he was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a less severe form of autism that made socializing difficult but also provided unique insights into the world.†   (source)
  • It's a whole lot safer to have a blank file on your flank than to have an alleged soldier who is nursing the "conscript" syndrome.†   (source)
  • In third grade, my teacher informed me that I have Asperger's syndrome.†   (source)
  • "Maybe he has Stockholm syndrome," Simon suggested.†   (source)
  • Big fish in a little pond syndrome?†   (source)
  • His saliva had infected me with a strain of Finnegan Ramos Conventional Success Syndrome.†   (source)
  • He had just moved to Fulton over the summer and had already experienced the rising and falling of the new-person syndrome.†   (source)
  • There's a touch of Stockholm Syndrome in the whole thing, I swear.†   (source)
  • If you get phantom limb syndrome for your entire body, how will you even know?†   (source)
  • They'd look like myocardial infarcts or arteriosclerotic brain syndromes, depending on how it hit them.†   (source)
  • I think it was one of his major disappointments in me that I couldn't repeat myself, not a single time; for unbeknownst to Farrell, and only partly apparent to me, the McGraw-Hill syndrome of despair and attrition had set in.†   (source)
  • Mama Brown ended my ruminations over the last-name syndrome by trooping her first-through-fourth graders in for the first-day assembly.†   (source)
  • Do you mean that, Mr. Reich, or is it simply a part of the general anxiety syndrome?†   (source)
  • He had a different syndrome than Auggie has.   (source)
    syndrome = a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease
  • Something syndrome.   (source)
    syndrome = a pattern of symptoms associated with an illness
  • olivia's told me about his "syndrome."   (source)
  • We have lost several from a postnatal stress syndrome, which we believe is adrenocortically mediated.   (source)
  • This was a syndrome of unexplained death among very young children; it was unremarkable, and her report went unchallenged.   (source)
  • …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
  • You think a jury is going to identify with a syndrome that doesn't even really exist?'†   (source)
  • Katie Riccobono,' King corrected, 'poster child for battered woman syndrome.†   (source)
  • He thought of Jordan's bullied victim syndrome and wondered if he believed it; if anyone would.†   (source)
  • 'So Peter becomes the first example of bullied victim syndrome,' Jordan said.†   (source)
  • Or too little vitamin K. Malabsorption syndrome.†   (source)
  • I thought she had Asperger's syndrome or something like it.†   (source)
  • And what is a Garnett-Fleischaker syndrome?†   (source)
  • The world was suffering from Stockholm syndrome.†   (source)
  • It didn't take long before the Stockholm syndrome wore off.†   (source)
  • I'm starting to see what you mean by Stockholm Syndrome: the command center manager said.†   (source)
  • "It takes months to develop Stockholm syndrome," Alec objected.†   (source)
  • Later, I asked my mom, "What is Asperger's syndrome?†   (source)
  • He had a healthy dose of little-man syndrome and an inordinate amount of body hair.†   (source)
  • 'A good Garnett-Fleischaker syndrome isn't easy to come by, and I don't want to ruin mine.†   (source)
  • The defenders of the police, on the other hand, invariably take refuge in what Fyfe calls the split-second syndrome: An officer goes to the scene as quickly as possible.†   (source)
  • He and Roger and Ad Worx itself were apt to be numbered among the fatalities no matter what they did; he could read it on Roger's round face, which had not looked so pallidly serious since he and Althea had lost their boy, Timothy, to the crib-death syndrome when the infant was only nine days old.†   (source)
  • When I left, they both cried, my mom explaining that it was just empty-nest syndrome, that they were just so proud of me, that they loved me so much.†   (source)
  • Researchers worldwide would soon begin identifying chromosomal disorders, discovering that patients with Down syndrome had an extra chromosome number 21, patients with Klinefelter syndrome had an extra sex chromosome, and those with Turner syndrome lacked all or part of one.†   (source)
  • It must be a Stockholm-syndrome thing.†   (source)
  • There have been cases of stress-induced cardiomyopathy, which also is known as broken heart syndrome.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I play chess with one of my colleagues, an anchorite like myself, who suffers from post-polio syndrome.†   (source)
  • There is no bullied victim syndrome.†   (source)
  • 'Psychologically, there isn't a significant difference between the treatment of a victim of bullying over time and the treatment of an adult female in battered woman syndrome.†   (source)
  • In the years that had passed, he'd become one of the foremost experts on battered woman syndrome, and appeared routinely as a witness for the defense all over the country.†   (source)
  • When Katie Riccobono had plunged a knife into her husband's chest while he was fast asleep-forty-six times-Jordan had called upon Dr. King Wah, a forensic psychiatrist who specialized in battered woman syndrome.†   (source)
  • Battered woman syndrome.†   (source)
  • For example, Asperger's syndrome.†   (source)
  • Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.†   (source)
  • Multi-faceted billionaire Howard Hughes suffered from stop-action blink syndrome, a bizarre condition which prevented his eyes from reopening for hours after a simple blink, and he obviously hoped to utilize the amazing power of the Shroud until the Viper intervened with a swift injection of phantom venom.†   (source)
  • The question side of a card might read, for example, "Show me, sir, the lesions in Horner's syndrome, & oculomotor nerve paralysis.†   (source)
  • Some were suffering from hemolytic uremic syndrome, a previously rare disorder that causes kidney damage.†   (source)
  • His kidneys are still not functioning, and he needs dialysis, but I trust it is just hepatorenal syndrome and the new liver will fix that.†   (source)
  • In about 4 percent of reported E. coli 0157:H7 cases, the Shiga toxins enter the bloodstream, causing hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), which can lead to kidney failure, anemia, internal bleeding, and the destruction of vital organs.†   (source)
  • The CDC had one server doing nothing but crunching mortality reports on Johannsen's Syndrome, and that already passed sixty thousand dead.†   (source)
  • Ghosh was dead against injections of vitamin B for the RLH syndrome, but Matron had convinced him it was better for Missing to do it than have the dissatisfied patient get an unsterilized hypodermic from a quack in the Merkato.†   (source)
  • She knew about Stockholm syndrome, an acute sociopathic response to intense trauma, usually expressed by victims identifying with, even siding with, their oppressors.†   (source)
  • Classic Stockholm syndrome.†   (source)
  • Over ninety million children, mostly in the U.S. and Europe, had been born from mothers with Johannsen's Syndrome in the two years since the attack.†   (source)
  • Minus Mother...Powell dodged an associated flame of infantile rage and resentment, the Orphan's Syndrome.†   (source)
  • The truth is that our colleague is convinced it's plague; his description of the syndrome proved it.†   (source)
  • What I guess about you is that you have a nobility syndrome.†   (source)
  • Rieux replied that he had not described a "syndrome," but merely what he'd seen with his own eyes.†   (source)
  • He noticed in some of his patients a curious syndrome of symptoms that cropped out in the third and fourth weeks, but he was not able to do much more than swathe cuts and burns.†   (source)
  • After graduating from high school, Myeko, the most susceptible of the three children to the A-bomb syndrome, eventually became an expert typist and took up instructing at typing schools.†   (source)
  • Though her energy still paid its dues, from time to time, to the A-bomb syndrome, the searing experiences of that day in 1945 seemed gradually to be receding from the front of her mind.†   (source)
  • Toulouse-Lautrec syndrome.†   (source)
  • As I show in my report, these and other physical and mental deterioration syndromes can be predicted with statistically significant results by the application of my new formula.†   (source)
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