S: (n) autism ((psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders and short attention span and inability to treat others as people)
S: (n) infantile autism (a rare but serious syndrome of childhood characterized by withdrawal and lack of social responsiveness or interest in others and serious linguistic deficits) "there is considerable dispute among specialists concerning infantile autism"
S: (n) Horner's syndrome (a pattern of symptoms occurring as a result of damage to nerves in the cervical region of the spine (drooping eyelids and constricted pupils and absence of facial sweating))
S: (n) cervical disc syndrome, cervical root syndrome (an abnormal condition resulting from compression of spinal nerve roots in the neck region; involves neck pains and muscular weakness and paresthesia)
S: (n) Chinese restaurant syndrome (headache and tingling or burning feelings and sweating caused by eating food that contains monosodium glutamate)
S: (n) Conn's syndrome (disturbances in saltwater balance and symptoms of weakness and muscular cramps and twitching and convulsions and sometimes paralysis; usually caused by a benign tumor of the cortex of the adrenal gland that leads to excess secretion of aldosterone)
S: (n) fetal alcohol syndrome, FAS (a congenital medical condition in which body deformation occurs or facial development or mental ability is impaired because the mother drinks alcohol during pregnancy)
S: (n) Gulf War syndrome, Persian Gulf illness (a medical condition of uncertain origin that affected many veterans of the 1991 Gulf War; characterized by fatigue and headache and dizziness and nausea and rashes and joint pain and respiratory disorders)
S: (n) Klinefelter's syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, XXY-syndrome (syndrome in males that is characterized by small testes and long legs and enlarged breasts and reduced sperm production and mental retardation; a genetic defect in which an extra X chromosome (XXY) is present in the male)
S: (n) malabsorption syndrome (a pattern of symptoms including loss of appetite and bloating and weight loss and muscle pain and steatorrhea; associated with celiac disease and sprue and cystic fibrosis)
S: (n) nephrotic syndrome, nephrosis (a syndrome characterized by edema and large amounts of protein in the urine and usually increased blood cholesterol; usually associated with glomerulonephritis or with a complication of various systemic diseases)
S: (n) Noonan's syndrome (syndrome seen only in males; marked by short stature and lowset ears and subnormal fertility)
S: (n) radiation sickness, radiation syndrome, radiation (syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions); low doses cause diarrhea and nausea and vomiting and sometimes loss of hair; greater exposure can cause sterility and cataracts and some forms of cancer and other diseases; severe exposure can cause death within hours) "he was suffering from radiation"
S: (n) Ramsay Hunt syndrome (syndrome resulting from infection by the herpes varicella zoster virus; characterized by vertigo and pain in the ears and facial nerve paralysis and sometimes hearing loss)
S: (n) Reiter's syndrome, Reiter's disease (an inflammatory syndrome (etiology unknown) predominantly in males; characterized by arthritis and conjunctivitis and urethritis)
S: (n) Reye's syndrome (acquired encephalopathy following acute viral infections (especially influenza or chicken pox) in young children; characterized by fever, vomiting, disorientation, coma, and fatty infiltration of the liver)
S: (n) scalenus syndrome (discomfort and vascular symptoms and loss of sensation in a shoulder and arm; caused by a scalene muscle compressing the subclavian artery and part of the brachial plexus)
S: (n) tetralogy of Fallot, Fallot's tetralogy, Fallot's syndrome (a congenital heart defect producing cyanosis; characterized by four symptoms: pulmonary stenosis and ventricular septal defect and malposition of the aorta over both ventricles and hypertrophy of the right ventricle)
S: (n) toxic shock, toxic shock syndrome, TSS (syndrome resulting from a serious acute (sometimes fatal) infection associated with the presence of staphylococcus; characterized by fever and diarrhea and nausea and diffuse erythema and shock; occurs especially in menstruating women using highly absorbent tampons)
S: (n) Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (syndrome associated with bacterial meningitis; marked by sudden high fever and skin discoloration and petechiae with hemorrhage into the adrenal glands and cardiovascular collapse)
S: (n) Williams syndrome (a rare congenital disorder associated with deletion of genetic material in chromosome 7; characterized by mental deficiency and some growth deficiency and elfin faces but an overly social personality and a remarkable gift for vocabulary)
S: (n) Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (syndrome consisting of intractable peptic ulceration with gastric hypersecretion and hyperacidity)