All 3 Uses of
syndrome
in
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
- 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.†
Chpt 4 *syndrome = a pattern of symptoms associated with an illness
- 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.†
Chpt 5
- 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.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
a pattern of symptoms associated with an illness; or any recognizable pattern -- especially when undesirable