Reye's syndrome

American  

[rahyz, reyz] / raɪz, reɪz /

noun

Pathology.

1. an uncommon, severe disorder occurring primarily in children after a viral illness, as influenza or chickenpox, and associated with aspirin usage, involving swelling of the brain and liver and affecting other organs: symptoms include fever, projectile vomiting, confusion, and, sometimes, respiratory arrest.

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Reye's syndrome British  

/ reɪz, raɪz /

noun

1. a rare metabolic disease in children that can be fatal, involving damage to the brain, liver, and kidneys

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Reye's syndrome Scientific  

/ rīz /

1. A rare, acute encephalopathy characterized by fever, vomiting, fatty infiltration of the liver, disorientation, and coma, occurring mainly in children and usually following a viral infection, such as chickenpox or influenza.

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Etymology

Origin of Reye's syndrome

After Ralph Douglas Kenneth Reye (1912–78), Australian pediatrician, who co-wrote a description of the syndrome in 1963

Example Sentences

And in North Hollywood, the first city park created with privately raised money was built in memory of Jaime Beth Slavin, a 16-year-old Woodland Hills girl who died in 1983 of Reye’s syndrome.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2022

The most significant humanizing detail, Mr. Cooper came to believe, was Mr. Bulger’s loss of a 6-year-old young son to Reye’s syndrome in 1973.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2015

The asthma epidemic accelerated in the 1980s, some researchers have noted, about the same time that aspirin was linked to Reye’s syndrome in children.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2011

Aspirin, when used by children and teenagers with chickenpox or flu-like symptoms, is associated with Reye's syndrome -- a rare but serious condition marked by brain inflammation.

From Reuters • Apr. 20, 2010

Among them: bacterial infections of the skin, pneumonia, encephalitis and the severe brain disorder known as Reye's syndrome.

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