different between syndrome vs dysfunction

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (sundrom?, “concurrence of symptoms, concourse”), from ????????? (súndromos, “running together”), from ???- (sun-, “with”) + ?????? (drómos, “running, course”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?nd???m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?nd?o?m/, /?s?nd??m/
• Hyphenation: syn?drome

Noun

syndrome (plural syndromes)

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

   Down syndrome; acquired immune deficiency syndrome; restless-leg syndrome; battered-wife syndrome
2. Any set of characteristics regarded as identifying a certain type, condition, etc., usually adverse.

   not-in-my-backyard syndrome; tip-of-the-tongue syndrome

Derived terms

Translations

References

• syndrome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• syndrome at OneLook Dictionary Search
• syndrome in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.d?om/

Noun

syndrome m (plural syndromes)

1. syndrome

Derived terms

References

• “syndrome” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

syndrome (plural syndromes)

1. syndrome

English

Etymology

dys- +? function

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s?f??k.??n/

Noun

dysfunction (countable and uncountable, plural dysfunctions)

1. A failure to function in an expected or complete manner. Usually refers to a disorder in a bodily organ (e.g. erectile dysfunction), a mental disorder, or the improper behavior of a social group.

Antonyms

• eufunction
• function

Derived terms

• dysfunctional
• dysfunctionally

Translations

Verb

dysfunction (third-person singular simple present dysfunctions, present participle dysfunctioning, simple past and past participle dysfunctioned)

1. (nonstandard, intransitive, chiefly biology) To fail to function correctly; to malfunction.