[Lexicog] missing word

Helge Gundersen helge.gundersen at INL.UIO.NO
Thu Aug 5 16:04:51 UTC 2004


Cluster? Range?

-- Helge


At 17:09 05.08.2004, you wrote:
>My wife and I are having a senior moment (which has lasted for a day or
>longer!). We are trying to remember a certain English word which refers to
>the way that a list of medical symptoms groups together so that a specific
>diagnosis is quite likely. We have checked thesauri and our own mental
>databanks and come up with the following synonyms, but we are still missing
>the word itself. Perhaps one or more of you can come up with the word we
>sense that we are missing.
>
>Synonyms:
>
>complex, coalesce, conspire, congregate, confluence, conflux, group, union,
>set, junction, syndrome, complex
>
>The missing word should fit in the following sentence:
>
>"The ______ of symptoms leads us to believe that one diagnosis is most
>likely out of the several possible diagnoses."
>
>The word "complex" seems most likely right now, but I'm not getting that
>"Euraka!" feeling about it that I usually get when having one of these
>vocabulary senior moments and then the word pops into mind.
>
>Thank you,
>Wayne
>-----
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