The word "syndrome" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a collection of symptoms that usually occur together, or to a condition or disorder characterized by a set of associated symptoms. For example: Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome that affects up to 10 million people in the United States.
Rather than acting as a tool to unearth the fragility of the human psyche, the effect is the equivalent to Dirty Dancing if Johnny Castle was crippled by, say, Tourette syndrome.
"We're going to get you tested for polycystic ovary syndrome, commonly known as PCOS," my doctor explained.
Turner confirms this, adding: "Another thing that's a part of the schizophrenic illness syndrome is the idea that your body has been interfered with," he tells me.
She was popular at school and had a noted instinct for caring, going out of her way to play with Michael, the neighbour with Down's syndrome, and paying regular visits to a lonely old man down the road known as Mr Partridge.
Karen Pine, professor of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, talks of the "Peter Pan syndrome", where young adults failed to mature financially and built up expectations of dependence.
The Robin Danielson Feminine Hygiene Product Safety Act is named after a woman who died of toxic shock syndrome (yes, that still exists), and wants independent testing of all sanitary products (or anything that goes near or in the vagina, though that's not in the text) done by the National Institutes of Health.
Fitzpatrick, who is also a research fellow with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in WA, said rates of foetal alcohol syndrome in the broader community were estimated to be 0.68 per 1000 children, compared with rates of 120 per 1000 seen in the Fitzroy Valley.
To give him a label such as OCD or Tourette syndrome probably isn't helpful as it medicalises him, and that can be counterproductive – as his reaction to your trying to discuss his behaviour has proven.
If he had Down's syndrome and he accidently pushed someone off a subway, that would be different… I've seen things where people are like, 'Adria didn't know what she was doing by tweeting it.' Yes, I did".
Sadly for Clarkson, this was spoiled dauphin syndrome at its most disgusting and entrenched – if he'd been told off properly (and a lot earlier), he would probably never have arrived at the sad point of becoming the only diva in town wearing dad jeans.
Parris identified two causes of the Tories' stuck craw syndrome.
