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Syndrome :

 A syndrome may be a recognizable complex of symptoms and physical findings which indicate a selected condition that an immediate cause isn't necessarily understood. Thus in practice doctors ask the infamous “viral syndrome” intrinsically due to the uncertainty regarding the legion of viral agents that's causing the illness. Once life science identifies a causative agent or process with a reasonably high degree of certainty, physicians may then ask the method as a disease, not a syndrome. Mucocutaneous lymph gland syndrome became Kawasaki syndrome which successively metamorphosed into Kawasaki disease; the latter is correctly a disease, not a syndrome, by virtue of its clearly identifiable diagnostic features and disease progression, and response to specific treatment.   Albert et al.1 catalogued six general views or concepts about what sorts of conditions could also be said to constitute a disease. These views range from nominalism and cultural-relativistic theories (i.e. some conditions become a disease when a profession or a society labels it as such) to a “disease realism” view (objectively demonstrable departure from adaptive biological functioning). The latter model is that the one best suited to this state of medicine; it emphasizes that the clinical signs and symptoms don't constitute the disease which it's not until causal mechanisms are clearly identified that we will say we've “really” discovered the disease.

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