winter-over syndrome

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Etymology[edit]

From being a syndrome suffered by personnel who winter-over (stay for the long polar night) in polar research stations, isolated from the rest of the world.

Noun[edit]

winter-over syndrome (plural winter-over syndromes)

  1. a variety of behavioral and medical disturbances, including irritability, depression, insomnia and irritable bowel syndrome, polar T3 syndrome, Antarctic stare