Syndrome vs Palindrome - What's the difference?
syndrome | palindrome |
(pathology) A recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours.
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, title= A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.
A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
(genetics) A stretch of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand
As nouns the difference between syndrome and palindrome
is that syndrome is a recognizable pattern of signs, symptoms and/or behaviours while palindrome is a word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.syndrome
English
(wikipedia syndrome)Noun
(en noun)Katie L. Burke
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Derived terms
* acquired immune deficiency syndrome * Asperger syndrome * * Bloom syndrome * chronic fatigue syndrome * * China syndrome * Down syndrome * economy class syndrome * empty nest syndrome * false memory syndrome * fetal alcohol syndrome * foreign accent syndrome * Gorlin's syndrome * * kapang syndrome * Kearns-Sayre syndrome * Korsakoff's syndrome * * parental alienation syndrome * Paris syndrome * Parkinson's syndrome * Peter Pan syndrome * Pinkerton Syndrome * polycystic ovary syndrome * premenstrual syndrome * Proteus syndrome * red neck syndrome * red man syndrome * Rett syndrome * Reye's syndrome * severe acute respiratory syndrome * sick building syndrome * small man syndrome * smoking stool syndrome * Stockholm syndrome * sudden infant death syndrome * sundowner syndrome * tall poppy syndrome * toxic shock syndrome * tube feeding syndrome * true believer syndrome * Zollinger-Ellison syndromepalindrome
English
(wikipedia palindrome)Noun
(en noun)- Level, madam and racecar are examples of single word palindromes .
- Rise to vote sir'' is an example of a sentence that is a palindrome .