syn-, sy-, sym-, syl-, sys-

Persistence of webbing between adjacent digits of the hand or foot, so that they are more or less completely fused together.

A birth defect in which there is partial, or total, webbing connecting two or more fingers or toes.

Fusion or, or webbing, between two or more adjacent fingers or toes.

A fetus or postnatal individual with fused or webbed fingers or toes.

A situation in which two or more digits are fused together.

It occurs normally in some mammals; such as, the siamang (an arboreal black furred gibbon native to the forests of Malaysia and Sumatra). It occurs as a rare abnormality in humans.

1. The use in grammar of constructions in which clauses are joined by conjunctions.
2. Surgical fusion of a joint.

Excision or surgery on a ligament.

1. Displacement of a ligament.
2. An unusual situation of a ligament.

Inflammation of a ligament or ligaments.

1. An association of businesses jointly contributing capital to a major project.
2. A business or agency that sells news stories or photographs to the media.
3. A group of newspapers that have the same owner.
4. A group of people who combine to carry out a business, enterprise, or some other common purpose.
5. An association of gangsters that controls an area of organized crime.
6. A council or body of syndics.
7. The office or jurisdiction of a government official; especially, a civil magistrate, in some European countries.

1. Organizing into or administering as a syndicate.
2. Selling an article or cartoon; for example, for publication in many magazines or newspapers at the same time: "She received a good income from the syndication of her articles and illustrations."

1. A group of symptoms that collectively indicate or characterize a disease, psychological disorder, or other abnormal condition.
2. A group of related or coincident things, events, actions, etc.
3. The pattern of symptoms that characterize or indicate a particular social condition.
4. A predictable, characteristic pattern of behavior, action, etc., that tends to occur under certain circumstances.
5. A group of things or events that form a recognizable pattern, especially of something undesirable.
6. A set of signs and symptoms that tend to occur together and which reflect the presence of a particular disease or an increased chance of developing a particular disease.

The constellation of numbness of the neck, arms, and back with headache, dizziness, profuse sweating, and palpitations after eating Chinese food laden with monosodium glutamate (MSG) strongly suggests the Chinese restaurant syndrome.

Other examples include the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), the achoo syndrome, the alien hand syndrome, the sick building syndrome, the stiff baby syndrome, and many, many others.

The word syndrome has long been popular in medicine and, more recently, outside medicine (as in the "China syndrome"). The word comes from Greek syn-, "together" plus dramein, "to run"; that is, "to run together", or "to go together". A common misspelling: syndrone.