Symptom vs. Syndrome

Symptomnoun

(medicine) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash.

Symptomnoun

(figuratively) A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.

Symptomnoun

Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms exhibited.

Symptomnoun

A sign or token; that which indicates the existence of something else; as, corruption in elections is a symptom of the decay of public virtue.

Symptomnoun

(medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease

Symptomnoun

anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence

Syndromenoun

(pathology) A recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours, especially of a disease or medical or psychological condition.

Syndromenoun

Any set of characteristics regarded as identifying a certain type, condition, etc., usually adverse.

Syndromenoun

Concurrence.

Syndromenoun

A group of symptoms occurring together that are characteristic and indicative of some underlying cause, such as a disease.

Syndromenoun

generally, a pattern of characteristics or behaviors occurring together, that are sufficiently common and distinctive to indicate that they are due to a known cause.

Syndromenoun

a complex of concurrent things;

Syndromenoun

a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease

Syndrome

A syndrome is a set of medical signs and symptoms which are correlated with each other and often associated with a particular disease or disorder. The word derives from the Greek σύνδρομον, meaning .