Reye's syndrome
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Etymology edit
Named after Dr R. Douglas Reye.
Noun edit
- (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.
Translations edit
the disease
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