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Reye syndrome

Reye syndrome is the alternative form of Reye's syndrome.

Meaning of Reye's syndrome

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

Questions about Reye syndrome

What is Reye syndrome the alternative form of?
Reye syndrome is the alternative form of Reye's syndrome.

Words near Reye syndrome in the dictionary

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

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