Also 7 syndrom. [mod.L., a. Gr. συνδρομή, f. σύν SYN- + δρομ-: δραμεῖν to run.]
1. Path. A concurrence of several symptoms in a disease; a set of such concurrent symptoms.
1541. Copland, Galyens Terap., 2 B iij. They enquyre the cause prymytyfe as partye of all the syndrome.
1605. Daniel, Queens Arcadia, III. ii. (1606), F ij. That so we may preuent the syndrome Of Symtomes.
1670. Maynwaring, Vita Sana, vi. 75. The syndrom is lethal.
1899. Allbutts Syst. Med., VI. 207. Charcots syndrome has in a number of reported cases been a precursor of arterio-sclerotic gangrene.
† 2. transf. or gen. A concurrence, concourse; a set of concurrent things. Obs.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., II. iii. 66. This motion is termed coition, and that not made by any faculty attractive of one, but a Syndrome and concourse of each.
1651. Biggs, New Disp., Pref. 7. A farraginous Syndrome of Knaves and Fools.
1651. Charleton, Ephes. & Cimm. Matrons, II. (1668), Pref. Distracted with a syndrome of Remorse, Fear, Anger, and Despair.
1661. Glanvill, Scepsis Sci., xxv. (1665), 156. Every single motion owning a dependence on such a Syndrome of præ-required Motors.
Hence Syndromic a., of or pertaining to the syndrome or combination of symptoms in a disease.
1890. Smithsonian Rep., 648. The syndromic episodes, the extreme manifestations of dis-equilibrium.