Both Uses of
syndrome
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- Driver ants, Ebola virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome: all these are brooms devised by nature to sweep a small clearing very well.†
Chpt 6 *syndrome = a pattern of symptoms associated with an illness
- Sometimes I play chess with one of my colleagues, an anchorite like myself, who suffers from post-polio syndrome.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
a pattern of symptoms associated with an illness; or any recognizable pattern -- especially when undesirable