Jamaican vomiting sickness

English

Noun

Jamaican vomiting sickness (uncountable)

1. An acute illness, with vomiting and dehydration, caused by the toxin hypoglycin A, found in unripe ackee fruit.
   • 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.