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Example sentences for: syndrome
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I did not think a book could be any worse than High Crimes . Then I encountered Jerome Levin's--whoops, I mean, Dr. Jerome Levin's-- The Clinton Syndrome . Psychotherapist Levin's ostensible purpose is to use Clinton's problems to bring attention to sex addiction.
Increased serum leptin levels in obesity and metabolic syndrome support the view that these disorders are in fact low-grade systemic inflammatory diseases, characterized by increased concentrations of proinflammatory cytokines like interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor-α and leptin.
(Of course, as a recent summer renter on Martha's Vineyard, I represent a classic case of the raise-the-drawbridge-we're-here syndrome.)
My tics and mnemonic quirks--or yours--may not constitute a syndrome, but we are not so vastly removed from Sacks' subjects, either.
(1) Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) required diffuse bilateral infiltrates, PO 2 divided by FiO 2 < 200 (both required) and, if pulmonary artery catheter was in use, a wedge pressure < 18.