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Syndactyly type 1

Syndactyly type 1 (SD1) is a common hereditary limb malformation with webbing between the third and fourth fingers and/or second and third toes, inherited dominantly.

Syndactyly type 2

Syndactyly type 2, or synpolydactyly (SPD, Vordingborg type), a rare autosomal dominant non-syndromic limb malformation combining 3/4 finger and 4/5 toe webbing with duplicated digits in the web; SPD1 caused by HOXD13 polyalanine expansions, SPD2 by FBLN1, SPD3 mapped to 14q11.2-q13.

Syndactyly type 6

Syndactyly type 6 (mitten-type syndactyly, ORPHA:295012) is a rare non-syndromic congenital digit fusion: unilateral fusion of fingers 2-5 with knot-like distal phalanges and 2nd-3rd toe fusion; inheritance listed as autosomal dominant or unknown.

Syndactyly-telecanthus-anogenital and renal malformations syndrome

STAR syndrome (OMIM 300707), an ultra-rare X-linked dominant malformation disorder from CCNQ/FAM58A loss-of-function on Xq28, causing toe syndactyly, telecanthus, and anogenital and renal malformations in females, likely lethal in males.

Syndax Pharmaceuticals

Syndax Pharmaceuticals is a Waltham, Massachusetts commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company that develops cancer therapies and markets two FDA-approved medicines, Revuforj and Niktimvo, since its 2016 Nasdaq listing.

Syndesi Therapeutics

Syndesi Therapeutics SA was a Belgian clinical-stage biotechnology company spun out of UCB in 2018 to develop SV2A modulators for cognitive impairment, acquired by AbbVie in 2022 for up to $1 billion.

Syndicalism

Syndicalism, or revolutionary syndicalism, is a socialist doctrine that places federated trade unions at the center of workers' struggle, relying on direct action and the general strike.

Syndicate

A syndicate is an association of independent parties, such as banks or insurers, that combine resources for a common objective, each responsible only for its own share.

Syndicate Bank

Syndicate Bank was an Indian public-sector bank founded in 1925 at Udupi, known for its Pigmy doorstep deposit scheme, nationalized in 1969, and merged into Canara Bank in 2020.

Syndiniales

Syndiniales (MALV groups I–V) are parasitic marine dinoflagellates, 0.2–20 μm, that kill protist, copepod, and fish-egg hosts; mostly known from 18S rDNA metabarcoding, up to 50% of sequences, 98% unassigned at genus level.

Syndrome

Syndrome: a group of signs and symptoms occurring together and characterizing an abnormality, from Greek syndromē 'running together'. Distinguished from disease (known cause) and disorder; examples include Down and metabolic syndrome.

Syndrome extraction

Syndrome extraction is the quantum error correction procedure that measures stabilizer operators on an encoded block of qubits to obtain an error syndrome without revealing the logical information.

Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion

SIADH, also called syndrome of inappropriate antidiuresis (SIAD), is excessive ADH effect causing euvolemic hyponatremia; diagnosed by concentrated urine with exclusion of other causes, treated with fluid restriction or hypertonic saline.

Syndromes and a Century (แสงศตวรรษ)

Syndromes and a Century (แสงศตวรรษ, Sang Sattawat) is a 2006 Thai art film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, his fourth feature, a two-part hospital story inspired by his physician parents, banned from Thai release after censors demanded four cuts.

Syndromic congenital sodium diarrhea

Syndromic congenital sodium diarrhea (syndromic congenital tufting enteropathy, OMIM 270420) is a rare autosomal recessive SPINT2-related intestinal disorder with neonatal sodium-losing diarrhea, choanal atresia, and corneal erosions.

Syndromic craniosynostoses

Syndromic craniosynostoses: genetic disorders with premature cranial suture fusion plus other anomalies, mainly Apert, Crouzon, Pfeiffer, Muenke, Saethre-Chotzen, and craniofrontonasal syndromes, mostly FGFR gene mutations, requiring multidisciplinary care.

SYNE1

SYNE1 (nesprin-1, enaptin) is a large 6q25.2 gene encoding a LINC complex nuclear envelope protein; biallelic variants cause recessive cerebellar ataxia (ARCA1/SCAR8, Beauce type), heterozygous variants Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy 4.

Synecdoche

Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part stands for a whole, or a whole for a part, as in "all hands on deck" or "sails" for ships.

Synecdoche, New York

Synecdoche, New York is Charlie Kaufman's 2008 directorial debut, a comedy-drama starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as theater director Caden Cotard, who builds a life-size replica of New York in a warehouse; released by Sony Pictures Classics on October 24, 2008.

Synechococcus

Synechococcus (Nägeli 1849) is a genus of unicellular, spherical to rod-shaped cyanobacteria, 0.8–1.5 μm, discovered in 1979; marine strains use phycoerythrin phycobilisomes, co-occur with Prochlorococcus, and drive about 25% of ocean primary production.

Synechocystis

Synechocystis, a genus of unicellular freshwater cyanobacteria in the Chroococcales; its strain PCC 6803, isolated in 1968 and genome-sequenced in 1996, is the default model cyanobacterium for photosynthesis research and phototrophic cell-factory biotechnology.

Synemin

Synemin (SYNM, desmuslin) is a large intermediate filament protein of muscle and glial cells; it forms heteropolymers with desmin or vimentin, crosslinks filaments to Z-disks and costameres, and anchors PKA as an AKAP.

Synephrine

Synephrine, also called oxedrine, is a phenylethanolamine alkaloid found naturally in citrus fruits and the primary protoalkaloid of bitter orange extracts used in weight-loss and sports-performance dietary supplements.

Synergism

Synergism (synergy, from Greek synergia) is an interaction in which a combined effect exceeds the additive prediction of individual effects; defined in toxicology, pharmacology, ecology, and solvent extraction chemistry.

Synergistic catalysis

Synergistic catalysis is a strategy in organic synthesis in which two distinct catalysts simultaneously activate a nucleophile and an electrophile, cooperating to improve a single reaction's rate, yield, or selectivity.

Synergistic divergence

Synergistic divergence is a rare congenital ocular motility disorder in which the affected eye abducts further on attempted adduction, often classified as type 4 Duane syndrome.

Synergy

Synergy is the interaction of two or more agents producing a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects, as when drugs or teammates achieve more together.

Synergy Health

Synergy Health was a Swindon-based British provider of outsourced sterilization, infection-control, and hospital support services, founded by Richard Steeves in 1991 and acquired by STERIS in 2015.

Synergys (森亿智能)

Synergys (森亿智能) is a Chinese medical data-intelligence company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Shanghai, whose AI turns hospital clinical data into decision-support and research applications.

Syneron Tech (呈元科技)

Syneron Tech (呈元科技) is a Chinese startup, founded in 2022 and incubated by Sinovation Ventures, that applies generative AI to synthetic peptide drug discovery through its SynCore platform.