Dictionary does not define the word "syndrome" itself. BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY (8 t h ed. 2004). However, it does define a number of specific syndromes, variously equating the word with "condition" (Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy), id. at 1042, "situation" (parental IND. INT'L & COMP. L. REV. courts and, undoubtedly, there is no shortage of either syndromes or expert witnesses prepared to testify about them. 4 Thus, we have had battered child syndrome, shaken baby syndrome, 6 battered woman syndrome, 7 parental alienation syndrome), id. at 1146, or "disorder" (repressed memory syndrome), id. at 1329. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines "syndrome" as "a group of signs or symptoms that occur together and characterize a particular abnormality." MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY 1196 (10th ed. 1995). 4. See Scoping Study On Delay In Children Act Cases: Findings and Action Taken 64 (2002), available at http:/Iwww.dca.gov.uk/familylscopestud.htm. This study was instructed by the Lord Chancellor in England and Wales, finding that delays in the handling of cases involving children were attributable, in part, to a shortage of available expert witnesses. Id. However, when one looks more closely at the findings, it appears that the shortage is not of expert witnesses per se, but is due to a desire for particular witnesses, court practice and overall poor case management. Id. at 65. 5. The term "battered child syndrome" first came to prominence at the multidisciplinary conference, organized by Dr. C. Henry Kempe on "The Battered-Child Syndrome" in 1961, and the seminal article he and others wrote the following year. C. H. Kempe et. al., The Battered-Child Syndrome, 181 JAMA 17 (1962). He and Ray Helfer co-edited the first edition of The Battered Child in 1968. For a discussion of these early developments, see THE BATERED CHILD 24-25 (Mary Edna Helfer et al. eds., 5 t h ed., 1997). Originally, the term was used to describe "altered parent and child behavior, malnutrition, and multiple types and ages of inflicted injury." Kenneth Wayne Feldman, Evaluation of Physical Injury, in THE BATrnED CHILD, supra, at 179. 6. "Shaken baby syndrome (SBS) is the result of a violent shaking force that causes a whiplash acceleration-deceleration motion of the relatively unstable infant's head upon its neck. ... Rapid deceleration occurs when the victim's chin strikes the chest and subsequently when the occiput strikes the interscapular region of the back at the base of the neck .... SBS usually produces a diagnostic triad of injuries that includes diffuse brain swelling, subdural hemorrhage, and retinal hemorrhages." Robert R. Kirschner, The Pathology of Child Abuse, in THE BATrERED CHILD, supra note 5, at 271-72 (emphasis in the original text). SBS came to international attention when an English nanny, Louise Woodward, was convicted in the United States of killing Matthew Eappen, a baby in her care. Commonwealth v. Woodward, 7 Mass.L.Rptr. 449 (Mass. Super. 1997); Commonwealth v. Woodward, 694 N.E.2d 1277 (Mass. 1998). Controv...