1.   Intestinal pseudo-obstruction is a clinical syndrome characterised by symptoms and signs of intestinal obstruction despite the absence of mechanical blockage of the intestinal lumen.

2.   The clinical syndrome is often termed postpatent parasitic bronchitis.

3.   Ahearn said he did not believe the theory, advanced by Dr. David Kirschner, a Long Island psychologist, was a recognized clinical syndrome.

4.   Ramachandran is more than a describer of fascinating clinical syndromes.