{"id":49582,"date":"2021-02-12T18:28:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T17:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=49582"},"modified":"2021-02-19T19:13:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:13:31","slug":"jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-syndromes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2021\/02\/12\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-syndromes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Syndromes"},"content":{"rendered":"

One word stands out from those listed in the <\/span>Oxford English Dictionary<\/span><\/i> (<\/span>OED<\/span><\/i>) as having been first recorded in 1983 (Table 1): Rett [syndrome], an X-linked <\/span>disorder<\/span><\/a>, with slow development, followed by dementia, loss of manual skills (with frequent hand wringing), apraxia and ataxia, autistic features, irregular breathing with hyperventilation, and seizures.<\/span><\/p>\n

Table 1.<\/b> Biomedical words (n=25) in the <\/span>OED<\/span><\/i> for which the earliest citations are from 1983 (out of a total of 192); I have found four antedatings (9\u201373 years)<\/span>
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\n*Antedatings: oncoprotein (<\/span>1974<\/span><\/a>); DNR (<\/span>1973<\/span><\/a>); biosensing (<\/span>1965<\/span><\/a>); motorphobia (<\/span>1910<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

It catches my eye because the <\/span>OED<\/span><\/i> includes relatively few syndromes of any kind as headwords, and only a handful of biomedical ones. In the years from 1970 to 1982 inclusive I have previously noticed only four: Angelman syndrome (1972), Asperger\u2019s syndrome (1971), Nelson\u2019s syndrome (1971), and Polle syndrome (1977). In the whole dictionary only 15 syndromes feature as main headings (the bold entries in Box 1). Closer inspection turns up another 108 syndromes hidden as subsidiary headings under other words (also listed in the box); for example, to find \u201ctoxic shock syndrome\u201d you need to look under \u201ctoxic\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Box 1.<\/b> Syndromes included in the online <\/span>OED<\/span><\/i> as main headwords (in bold) or subsidiary headwords<\/span>
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For comparison, on a rough count, <\/span>Dorland\u2019s Medical Dictionary<\/span><\/i> includes over 400 syndromes in a single entry, \u201csyndrome\u201d; <\/span>Stedman\u2019s Medical Eponyms<\/span><\/i> includes about 600 eponymous syndromes; and <\/span>Whonamedit?<\/span><\/a> includes over 2800 eponymous syndromes (about 34% of all the eponymous medical entities it lists).<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the <\/span>OED<\/span><\/i> is a rich source of information through the many citations it includes, and a careful search for syndromes turns up 199 other syndromes that haven\u2019t been accorded headings of their own, a total of 322. Even so, this is still dwarfed by the total number that could have been included. And some of the omissions are unaccountable. For example, Plummer\u2013Vinson syndrome is included, but <\/span>Brown Kelly\u2013Paterson syndrome<\/span><\/a> is nowhere to be seen. I suppose it might have been included had it been the <\/span>Oxford <\/span><\/i>Scottish<\/u><\/span><\/i> Dictionary<\/span><\/i>. On the other hand, the law of <\/span>NOMEN<\/span><\/a> (Non-Original Malappropriate Eponymous Nomenclature) predicts that no syndrome will be named after those who described it first. There is a DPhil project here for a keen lexicographer who would like to trace the history of syndromes and fill in the gaps in the dictionary\u2019s headwords.<\/span><\/p>\n

So what is a syndrome? In Greek <\/span>\u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u03bf\u03bc\u03bf\u03c2<\/span> means concurrence, and the <\/span>OED<\/span><\/i> gives three definitions. First, labelled relevant to pathology: \u201cA concurrence of several symptoms in a disease; a set of such concurrent symptoms\u201d. CREST is a good example, with its five components, <\/span>C<\/span>alcinosis, <\/span>R<\/span>aynaud’s phenomenon, <\/span>E<\/span>sophageal dysfunction, <\/span>S<\/span>clerodactyly, and <\/span>T<\/span>elangiectasia. So<\/span> is the LEOPARD syndrome: <\/span>L<\/span>entigines, <\/span>E<\/span>CG conduction defects, <\/span>O<\/span>cular hypertelorism, <\/span>P<\/span>ulmonary stenosis, <\/span>A<\/span>bnormal genitalia, <\/span>R<\/span>etarded growth, and <\/span>D<\/span>eafness.<\/span><\/p>\n

An obsolete transferred use (\u201cA concurrence, concourse; a set of concurrent things\u201d) is followed by a more recent definition, with a first citation from 1955: \u201c<\/span>a characteristic combination of opinions, behaviour, etc.; frequently preceded by a qualifying word\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, these definitions do not take account of entities that are called syndromes despite not being <\/span>combinations <\/span>of features. For example, \u201c<\/span>white coat syndrome<\/span><\/a>\u201d is not a syndrome; it simply describes the rise in blood pressure that occurs when it is measured in the clinic. It may imply <\/span>different conditions<\/span><\/a>, but it is not itself a collection of signs or symptoms.<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>OED<\/span><\/i> also observes the distinction between a disease or condition and the syndrome that it produces, as in its definition of \u201cmiserere mei\u201d: \u201cIntestinal obstruction; the clinical syndrome (severe abdominal pain, faecal vomiting, and obstipation) characteristic of this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Susan Sontag in <\/span>AIDS and Metaphor<\/span><\/i>, her 1989 update of her classic 1978 essay <\/span>Illness as Metaphor<\/span><\/i>, wrote that “AIDS is not a single illness but a syndrome, [which] makes it more a product of definition or construction than even a very complex, multiform illness like cancer.\u201d Her insight into how syndromes are often framed can be seen in the way that they are sometimes fabricated by postulating that because a series of unrelated outcomes are linked by a common cause, they constitute, so it is suggested, a syndrome. An egregious example of this is the \u201cSILENT syndrome\u201d (Box 2), which is no syndrome at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

Box 2.<\/b> Reported features of the so-called SILENT syndrome (\u201cthe Syndrome of Irreversible Lithium Effectuated Neuro Toxicity\u201d), as reported by Adityanjee et al. (<\/span>2005<\/span><\/a>); this is not a syndrome, but a list of possible adverse effects of lithium and adverse reactions to it, including complete syndromes<\/span>
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While searching the <\/span>OED<\/span><\/i> for examples of syndromes, I came across a typo in a <\/span>citation<\/span><\/a> from a 1989 <\/span>BMJ<\/span><\/i> paper by Helen M Kingston, titled \u201cDysmorphology and teratogenesis\u201d, in a series titled \u201cABC of Clinical Genetics\u201d. Here it is, before it gets corrected (Figure 1).<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nFigure 1.<\/b> The fetal alcohol syndrome as purportedly described in The <\/em><\/span>BMJ<\/span><\/i> in 1989<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeffrey Aronson<\/strong>\u00a0is a clinical pharmacologist, working in the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He is also president emeritus of the British Pharmacological Society.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Competing interests:<\/strong> None declared.<\/p>\n

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