sudden infant death syndrome

English

Alternative forms

• SIDS (initialism)

Noun

sudden infant death syndrome (uncountable)

1. (pathology) The sudden and unexplained death of an infant aged one month to one year, normally while sleeping.

Synonyms

• crib death
• cot death

Translations

medical syndrome

• Catalan: síndrome de la mort sobtada del lactant f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嬰兒猝死症／婴儿猝死症 (zh) (yīng'ér cùsǐ zhèng)

• Dutch: wiegendood (nl) m
• Finnish: kätkytkuolema (fi)
• French: mort subite du nourrisson (fr) f
• German: Kindstod (de) m
• Icelandic: vöggudauði, skyndidauði ungbarna m
• Japanese: 乳幼児突然死症候群 (nyūyōji totsuzenshi shōkōgun)
• Maori: mate ohorere pēpi
• Polish: nagła śmierć łóżeczkowa f, zespół nagłego zgonu niemowląt m
• Russian: синдро́м внеза́пной де́тской сме́рти m (sindróm vnezápnoj détskoj smérti)
• Swedish: plötslig spädbarnsdöd