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Reye's syndrome

Reye's syndrome noun: a potentially fatal disease that causes numerous detrimental effects to many organs, especially the brain and liver.

Noun

Reye's syndrome (uncountable)

  1. A potentially fatal disease that causes numerous detrimental effects to many organs, especially the brain and liver.
    • Reye's syndrome and Jamaican vomiting sickness are disorders of mitochondrial dysfunction, while MCAD is a defect in mitochondrial beta oxidation of fatty acids.1997, Norman Gitlin, The Liver and Systemic Disease, page 277

Forms of Reye's syndrome

alternative formReye syndrome

Origin of Reye's syndrome

Named after Dr R. Douglas Reye.

Questions about Reye's syndrome

What does Reye's syndrome mean?
Reye's syndrome means a potentially fatal disease that causes numerous detrimental effects to many organs, especially the brain and liver.
What part of speech is Reye's syndrome?
Reye's syndrome is a noun.

Words near Reye's syndrome in the dictionary

  1. Reyburn
  2. Reyburns
  3. Reydon
  4. Reye
  5. Reye syndrome
  6. Reye's syndrome
  7. Reyer
  8. reyerite
  9. Reyers
  10. Reyes
  11. Reyesano

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