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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
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Disease VS syndrome

What is the difference between 'disease' and 'syndrome'?
  

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AH020387 What is the difference between 'disease' and 'syndrome'? Forgive me for not looking it up. I think of a syndrome as a disease which presents with a variety of seemingly unrelated symptoms.

  • AH020387 What is the difference between 'disease' and 'syndrome'?
  • Forgive me for not looking it up.
  • I think of a syndrome as a disease which presents with a variety of seemingly unrelated symptoms.
  • I may be completely wrong.
  • Lou Gherig's Disease Down Syndrome There's probably a lot of crossover.
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AH020387What is the difference between 'disease' and 'syndrome'?
Forgive me for not looking it up.

I think of a syndrome as a disease which presents with a variety of seemingly unrelated symptoms. I may be completely wrong.

Lou Gherig's Disease

Down Syndrome

There's probably a lot of crossover. But once the name is chosen

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