Reye's syndrome

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Etymology

Named after Dr R. Douglas Reye.

Noun

Reye's syndrome (uncountable)

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

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