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Symptoms and complications of uterine fibroids
Uterine fibroids, benign pelvic tumors affecting most women by menopause, cause symptoms in only about 30% of cases, most often heavy bleeding, pressure, and anemia.
Symptoms of COVID-19
Symptoms of COVID-19, the illness from SARS-CoV-2: fever, cough, sore throat, fatigue, and loss of taste or smell, with Omicron shifting symptoms toward cold-like illness and 5-10% of infections leading to long COVID.
Symptoms of endometriosis
Symptoms of endometriosis include severe dysmenorrhea, chronic pelvic pain, deep pain during sex, heavy bleeding, and infertility; symptoms usually begin in adolescence and often improve after menopause.
SymPy
SymPy is a free, open-source Python library for symbolic mathematics, written entirely in Python and started by Ondřej Čertík in 2006, covering calculus, algebra, and equation solving.
Symra (oil field)
Symra is an oil and gas field in the Norwegian North Sea, discovered in 2018 and producing since 2026 through a subsea tieback to the Ivar Aasen platform.
Symrise
Symrise is a German flavors and fragrances company headquartered in Holzminden, Germany, supplying food, beverage, perfume, and personal care makers from more than 100 locations with sales of €4.9 billion in 2025.
Symt
Symt, Urdu for "direction," was a Pakistani pop rock band from Lahore formed in 2009, whose 2012 Coke Studio songs Koi Labda and Tum Kaho became hits before the band ended in 2016.
SYN flood
A SYN flood, also called a SYN attack, is a denial-of-service attack that fills a TCP server's backlog of half-open connections, first publicized in 1996.
Syn Otechestva
Syn Otechestva ("Son of the Fatherland") was a Russian literary and political journal published in Saint Petersburg from 1812 to 1852, founded by Nikolai Grech.
Syn Ventures
Syn Ventures is a West Palm Beach, Florida venture capital firm founded in 2021 by former Fortune 500 security officers Jay Leek and Patrick Heim to invest exclusively in cybersecurity.
Synagogue
A synagogue, also called Beit Knesset, is a Jewish house of worship, study, and assembly, central to Jewish communal life since the Jerusalem Temple's destruction in 70 CE.
Synagogue Church of All Nations
The Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) is a Lagos-based Nigerian megachurch founded by T.B. Joshua, known for its healing ministry, Emmanuel TV, and international pilgrims.
Synagogue Phase 1 (Syria)
Synagogue Phase 1 (Syria) is the c. 150 CE first building phase of the Dura-Europos synagogue, a private house (House L7-H) adapted for Jewish worship, later replaced by the famous painted synagogue renovated c. 244 CE.
Synagogue phase 2
Synagogue phase 2 is the renovation and expansion of the Dura-Europos synagogue, c. 244 CE, dated by Aramaic inscriptions on painted ceiling tiles; it produced the famous figural wall paintings, distinct from the earlier house-synagogue phase 1.
Synallaxis
Synallaxis (Vieillot, 1818) is the largest spinetail genus of the ovenbird family Furnariidae, Neotropical from Mexico to Argentina, with about 33–37 species; the Amazonian S. rutilans group was split into five species in 2022.
Synanceia
Synanceia, the stonefishes, is a genus of camouflaged Indo-Pacific reef fishes in Synanceiidae with venomous dorsal spines; species include S. verrucosa and S. horrida, treated with hot-water immersion and antivenom.
Synanon
Synanon, also known as the Church of Synanon, was an American residential drug-rehabilitation community founded by Chuck Dederich near Santa Monica, California, in 1958, known for its confrontational group practice called the Synanon Game.
Synapse
A synapse, or synaptic junction, is where a neuron passes an electrical or chemical signal to another neuron or effector cell; chemical synapses release neurotransmitters, electrical ones pass current directly.
Synapse Financial Technologies
Synapse Financial Technologies was a California banking-as-a-service middleware company connecting fintechs to partner banks, founded in 2014, whose 2024 bankruptcy left tens of thousands unable to access deposits.
Synapsin
Synapsins (synapsin I, II, III; SYN1, SYN2, SYN3) are neuron-specific phosphoproteins coating synaptic vesicles, regulating neurotransmitter release via phosphorylation, and modulating neuronal development, plasticity, and neurological disease.
Synapsis
Synapsis is the close pairing of homologous chromosomes during meiotic prophase I, held together by the zipper-like synaptonemal complex; it enables crossing over and accurate chromosome segregation, and does not occur in mitosis.
Synapta maculata
Synapta maculata (snake sea cucumber, 斑錨參) is a snake-like apodid sea cucumber of the Indo-West Pacific, up to 2–3 m long, lacking tube feet, with anchor-shaped spicules and 15 pinnate tentacles.
Synaptic Intelligence
Synaptic Intelligence (SI) is a regularization technique against catastrophic forgetting in continual learning for neural networks, introduced by Zenke, Poole, and Ganguli at ICML in 2017.
Synaptic plasticity
Synaptic plasticity, also called Hebbian plasticity, LTP and LTD, is activity-dependent change in synaptic strength considered the main mechanism of learning and memory storage, spanning potentiation, depression, homeostatic scaling, and metaplasticity.
Synaptic Potentials
Synaptic potentials are graded voltage changes across pre- or postsynaptic membranes, chiefly EPSPs and IPSPs produced by ligand-gated ion channels, that summate temporally and spatially to decide whether a neuron fires.
Synaptic pruning
Synaptic pruning is the developmental elimination of excess neural synapses, driven by activity and executed by microglia, astrocytes, and OPCs via complement and other immune signals; dysregulation links to schizophrenia and autism.
Synaptic scaling
Synaptic scaling, or homeostatic synaptic scaling, is a slow non-Hebbian plasticity first described by Turrigiano in 1998 in which neurons globally multiply all excitatory synapse strengths up or down, via AMPA receptor trafficking, to stabilize firing.
Synaptic transistor
A synaptic transistor is a three-terminal device that emulates a biological synapse, using a gate terminal to adjust and retain its channel conductance as a stored synaptic weight.
Synapticon
Synapticon is a German manufacturer of integrated motion control hardware and software for robotics, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Schönaich near Stuttgart, known for its SOMANET servo drives.
Synaptogenesis
Synaptogenesis is the formation of synapses between neurons, via growth-cone contact and recruitment of scaffold and cell adhesion proteins such as PSD95, neurexin, and neuroligin; it peaks postnatally in rodents (P7–P14) and continues throughout life, with mutations in SHANK and SYNGAP1 linked to autism and intellectual disability.